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*The Orders and Medals awarded to Sir Edward Henry Goschen, 2nd Baronet, who led a career of some distinction as a Diplomat,

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*The Orders and Medals awarded to Sir Edward Henry Goschen, 2nd Baronet, who led a career of some distinction as a Diplomat, punctuated by a ten-month period of service in the Boer War with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th (Irish) Imperial Yeomanry. Whilst serving as a Trooper, his regiment was surrounded and captured en masse and taken Prisoner of war during the ‘Lindley Disaster’ on 31 May 1900. Returning to the Diplomatic Service, he served with the Egyptian Finance Ministry during W.W.I., comprising: Queen’s South Africa, 1899-1902, 3rd type reverse, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14182 Tpr: E. H. Goschen, 47th Coy 13th Impl: Yeo:), with top bar and brooch pin;Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class neck badge in gold, silver and enamel, with length of neck ribbon; Egypt, Sultanate, Order of the Nile, 3rd class neck badge in silver and enamels, with length of neck ribbon;Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer’s 4th Class breast badge in gold and enamels;The first toned, extremely fine, others with occasional tiny enamel flakes, generally very fine or better (4). Italy, Order of the Crown (Officer): London Gazette: 01.07.1909 – ‘valuable services rendered’; Turkey, Order of the Medjidie (3rd Class): London Gazette: 15.09.1911 – ‘valuable services rendered’; Egypt, Order of the Nile (3rd Class): London Gazette: 29.12.1916 - ‘valuable services rendered’; Sir Edward Henry Goschen was born 9 March 1876 in Paris, France, the eldest son of the Right Honourable Sir William Goschen, who later became the British Ambassador to Berlin, serving during the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Goschen was also the great-grandson of George Joachim Goschen, the famous publisher of Leipzig, and a grandson of William Henry Goschen, who founded the banking firm of Fruhling and Goschen in London in 1815. He was nephew of the first Viscount Goschen, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and a first cousin of Sir Harry Goschen, Baronet, of Goschens and Cunliffe. Edward Goschen was educated at Eton, where he discovered a life-long love of cricket, and followed his father into the Diplomatic Service. In 1897 he was appointed an honorary attaché to the Embassy in Saint Petersburg, but upon the outbreak of the Boer War in South Africa he then volunteered for one years’ service as a Trooper with the 47th Company, 13th Imperial Yeomanry – a unit filled with men from the upper echelons of aristocratic society in Belfast and London, to the extent that it was labelled the ‘Millionaires Own’ amongst the home press. The 13th Imperial Yeomanry formed part of General Colville’s 9th Division, and it was during this time that Edward Goschen was taken prisoner during the ‘Lindley Disaster’. Here, the Battalion was ambushed and surrounded by a vastly superior Boer Force during the hours of darkness, and despite organising a firm defence the unit was not sufficiently equipped with food or supplies, and the 3 Boer Krupp guns inflicted many casualties. Faced with further casualties, and without assistance arriving, Colonel Basil Edward Spragge; the Commanding Officer, had no choice but to surrender at 2.00pm on 31 May 1900 – whereupon Goschen and the entire British force were captured and taken prisoner. In the process Captain Keith and sixteen other ranks were killed, Sir John Power and three men later died of their wounds, and four other officers and twenty-eight men were wounded. Fifteen officer’s and 367 men were captured unwounded bringing the total number of prisoners to more than 400. A photograph exists of Goschen as a prisoner of war, this being taken in a POW Camp standing in the centre of the image with a cap on his head. His photograph is identified as ‘E.H. Goschen, son of the (then) 1st Lord of the Admiralty’. Goschen was later released and discharged ‘at his own request’ on 11 December 1900, returning to the Diplomatic Service as Honorary Attaché at the Legation in Tangiers. After three years he was posted to Egypt as Private Secretary to Sir W.E. Garstin at the Ministry of Public Works, and in 1908 he joined the staff of the Egyptian Foreign Office, being later appointed Controller of the Secretariat in the Ministry of Finance, a post which he held for a long period. .For this service Goschen was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1909, he was appointed by His Highness the Khedive of Egypt to receive the Order of the Medjidieh 2nd Class in 1911, and eventually received on the recommendation of His Highness the Sultan of Egypt the Order of the Nile 3rd Class 1916. His obituary in The Times records that ‘Goschen was a good looking man of great personal charm and a very kindly disposition. Socially he became extremely popular in Cairo, and was a good sportsman with a special affection for cricket.’ In May 1924 he succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father, and three months afterwards he was admitted as a Partner in the well-known stockbroking firm of Joseph Sebag and Co., and he became one of the Trustees of the Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund. Goschen, who had married in 1908, Countess Marie Danneskjold Samsoe of Denmark, had two sons and two daughters. He died in 1933. Offered with a quantity of useful and detailed research.

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