John Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen

John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen KBE (7 July 1906 – 22 March 1977), was a British Conservative politician.

The Viscount Goschen
Arms of the Viscounts Goschen
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
In office
24 June 1970  20 November 1971
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byThe Lord Bowles
Succeeded byThe Lord Denham
In office
6 September 1962  28 December 1964
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterAlec Douglas-Home
Harold Macmillan
Preceded byThe Lord Newton
Succeeded byThe Lord Bowles
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
24 July 1952  22 March 1977
as a hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 2nd Viscount Goschen
Succeeded byThe 4th Viscount Goschen
Personal details
Born
John Alexander Goschen

(1906-07-07)7 July 1906
Died22 March 1977(1977-03-22) (aged 70)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative

Goschen was the second son of the Hon. Sir William Henry Goschen, second son of George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, and was educated at Eton College and Sandhurst.[1] He was a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and served with the British Military Mission to Greece from 1945 to 1947. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his military service in 1944.[2] He succeeded his uncle to the viscountcy in 1952 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. He served under Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1962 to 1964 and from 1970 to 1971. In 1972 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his political and public service.[3]

Lord Goschen married firstly Hilda Violet Ursula Jervis, daughter of Colonel the Hon. St Leger Henry Jervis and granddaughter of the third Viscount St Vincent, in 1934. They were divorced in 1943. He married secondly Alvin England, daughter of H. England, in 1955. They had one son and one daughter. Lord Goschen died in March 1977, aged 70, and was succeeded by his only son Giles.

References

  1. "Goschen, 3rd Viscount". Who's Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  2. "No. 36668". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 August 1944. p. 3918.
  3. "No. 45678". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 May 1972. p. 6262.
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