Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (18 July 1847 London, 20 May 1924), was a British diplomat. He was the younger brother of the Conservative politician George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen. [William] Edward Goschen was born at Eltham in England on 18 July 1847. He was 12th child and sixth son of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen, a German from Leipzig and Henrietta Ohmann who was born in London. At the time of his birth his father was 54.