George Peabody Gooch

George Peabody Gooch OM CH FBA (21 October 1873 – 31 August 1968) was a British journalist, historian and Liberal Party politician.

A follower of Lord Acton who was independently wealthy, he never held an academic position, but knew the work of historians of continental Europe.

[9] After the First World War, Gooch became an influential historian of Europe of the period and was critical of British policy.

[10] For about ten years from the mid-1920s onwards, he was involved, with Harold Temperley, in the publication of the official British diplomatic history.

[12] Gooch has been noted as a significant revisionist historian of the Europe of the early 20th century, in particular in relation to the causes of the First World War.