Sir Harry Goschen, 1st Baronet

Sir William Henry Neville Goschen, 1st Baronet (30 October 1865 – 7 July 1945), known as Harry Goschen, was a British businessman and banker from the prominent Goschen family.

Family and early life 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 founded together with the German merchant Heinrich Frühling (1790–1841) the merchant bank Frühling & Göschen, of Leipzig and London. He married an English woman and had several children, including George, Henry and Edward.

Harry's younger brother was Major General Arthur Goschen. Harry was educated at Eton College from 1879 to 1884.

Career Goschen joined the family merchant banking firm Frühling & Göschen where he later became senior partner. His personality and role during the First World War were later recalled in The Times:

Goschen was appointed Deputy lieutenant for Essex in 1920.

Honours Goschen was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1918 Birthday Honours for his services during the First World War. He was knighted in the same order (KBE) in April 1920, for "valuable services on many Government Committees" during the war.

In the 1927 Birthday Honours, Goschen was created a Baronet, of Durrington House in the Parish of Sheering and County of Essex, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for public services.

He was also a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. They had one daughter, Christian Eleanor Margaret, in 1895.

Harry Goschen died at Durrington House, his Essex estate, in 1945. The baronetcy became extinct upon his death.