George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831–1907)

Politician and financier. BA, Oxford. Worked in Fruhling and Goschen, his father’s banking firm. Director of the Bank of England, 1858–65. Wrote The theory of foreign exchanges (1861). MP for the City of London from 1863; for Edinburgh East from 1885. Vice-president of the Board of Trade from 1865. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1865. Cabinet member at the poor-law board, 1868–71, at the Admiralty, 1871–4. Supported the British invasion of Egypt in 1882.