Sir Harry Goschen, 1st Baronet
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Sir Harry Goschen Bt KBE JP DL |
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Sir Harry in 1927
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| Born |
William Henry Neville Goschen 30 October 1865 Mayfair, London |
| Died | 7 July 1945 (aged 79) Harlow, Essex |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | businessman, banker |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1886–1918 |
| Rank | Major (honorary) |
| Unit | London Regiment |
Sir William Henry Neville Goschen, 1st Baronet KBE JP DL (30 October 1865 – 7 July 1945), known as Harry Goschen, was a British businessman and banker from the prominent Goschen family.
Harry was born at 7 Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square London, the son of Henry Goschen (1837–1932) and Augusta Eleanor Shakerley, niece of Sir Charles Shakerley, 1st Baronet. Henry Goschen was the younger brother of George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen.
Their grandfather was prominent publisher and printer Georg Joachim Göschen of Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. His third son Wilhelm Heinrich (William Henry) Göschen (1793–1866) came to England in 1814 and the next year co-founded the merchant banking firm Frühling & Göschen, of Leipzig and London. He married an English woman and had several children, including George, Henry and Sir Edward Goschen.
His younger brother was Major General Arthur Goschen. Harry was educated at Eton College from 1879–84. In 1886, he was gazetted as a lieutenant in the 24th Middlesex Volunteer Rifles of the London Regiment.
Goschen joined the family merchant banking firm Frühling & Göschen, and became involved in insurance. He was director of the Ocean Marine Insurance Co., Sun Insurance Office and Sun Life Assurance Society. His personality and role during the First World War were later recalled in The Times:
Thus born with the family gift for finance, Harry Goschen easily succeeded to a position in the City which he confirmed by his native shrewdness and common sense, and above al by his kindliness, accessibility, and straight-forward candour. Those who worked with him and consulted him were sure of getting from him sound and disinterested views as to the practical aspects of a problem. This faculty, combined with his unfailing readiness to work hard for what he believed to be the best interests of the City, and of the national and international well-being which is its chief concern, caused Sir Harry Goschen to be called to offices of high responsibility in the critical period during and after the 1914–18 war. With his stalwart, balky person, round, friendly. spectacled face, and general appearance of massive strength, he was the embodiment of imperturbable steadiness and confidence, at a time when various forms of nervous hysteria abroad were reducing the world's monetary system to chaos.
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