Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen

Giles John Harry Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen (born 16 November 1965) is a British Conservative politician.

Goschen is the son of John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen, by his second wife Alvin England. He was educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire, ^[1] and Eton. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1977 at the age of eleven. Goschen served under John Major as a Lord-in-Waiting from 1992 to 1994 and as Under-Secretary of State for Transport from 1994 to 1997. In 1999 he was among the Conservative hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, the youngest chosen by any party group.

Title and Styles

Arms of Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen
Notes Coat of arms of the Goschen family Coronet A coronet of a Viscount Crest On an Arrow fesswise a Dove wings endorsed all proper Escutcheon Argent a Heart fired and transfixed with an Arrow bendwise and point upwards Gules in chief two Anchors erect Sable Supporters Dexter: A Sailor; Sinister: a Private of the Royal Marines, both proper; each holding in the exterior hand a Flagstaff of the last therefrom flowing a Banner Argent charged with a Pale Gules thereon an Anchor cabled and erect Or Motto: Motto Pacem

Political offices
Preceded by Steven Norris Robert Key The Lord MacKay of Ardbrecknish	Under-Secretary of State for Transport with Steven Norris 1994–1996 John Bowis 1996–1997 1994–1997	Succeeded by ?
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Alexander Goschen	Viscount Goschen 1977–present	Incumbent

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

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