Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen

Who is Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen?

Giles John Harry Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen 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 Preparatory School 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.