GOSCIIEN, GEORGE JOACImI, h. England 1831; educated at Rugby and Oxford, but- declined to graduate having scruples about taking certain oaths. Going into mercantile business he paid special attention to financial questions, hut left his germ in order to take office in the Russell-Gladstone ministry. He was returned in the liberal interest for the city of London in 1863, on the death of Mr. W. Wood, and he took an active share in throwing open the universities to dissenters, and in bringing about the abolition of religious tests. He was re-elected for the city of London, at the head of the poll, in July, 1865, and became vice-president of the board of trade, when he was sworn of the Privy Council, and chancellor of- the duchy of Lancaster and a cabinet minister, 1866, retiring with the Russell ministry in June of that year. Unon Glad stone's accession to power, Dec., 1868, he was appointed president of the poor-law
board, which office he held till March, 1871, when he succeeded Mr. Childers as the first lord of admiralty. He went out of office with his party, Feb.. 1874. At the general election in that year he was the only liberal candidate returned for the city. In 1876 Goschen and M. Joubert were chosen as delegates of the British and French holders of the Egyptian bonds to concert measures for the conversion of the debts. Giischen attended the international monetary conference held at Paris, in Aug., 1878. He has written largely on financial questions, and his treatise on The Theory of the Foreign. Exchanges has been translated into French. He has published his Speech on the Oxford University Tests Abolition Bill, and Speech on Bankruptcy Legislation and other com mercial subjects.