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

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politician. Goschen was the second son of the Hon. Sir William Henry Goschen (1870–1943), second son of

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, and was educated at

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and Sandhurst. He was a

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in the

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and served with the British Military Mission to

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from 1945 to 1947. He was appointed an Officer of the

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for his military service in 1944. He succeeded his uncle in the viscountcy in 1952 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the

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. He served under

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and

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(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. Lord Goschen married firstly Hilda Violet Ursula Jervis, daughter of Colonel the Hon. St Leger Henry Jervis and granddaughter of the third

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, in 1934. They were divorced in 1943. He married secondly Alvin Moyanna Lesley England (died 2017), daughter of Harry 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.

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