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Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DL (1 September 1845 – 30 October 1932), was a British Army officer. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then in the expedition of Sir Charles Warren to Bechuanaland in the mid-1880s. He took a prominent role as General Officer Commanding the 1st Division ...
Baron Methuen. Baron Methuen, of Corsham in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created in 1838 for the former Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and Wiltshire North, Paul Methuen. His grandson, the third Baron (who succeeded his father), was a distinguished soldier who became Field marshal. [2]
Biography. Methuen was the third and youngest son of Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen, by his wife Grace Durning Holt, daughter of Sir Richard Durning Holt, Bt. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Engineering.
Methuen was the son of Paul Cobb Methuen of Corsham, Wiltshire, and his wife Matilda (née Gooch). He sat as Member of Parliament for Wiltshire from 1812 to 1819 and for Wiltshire North from 1833 to 1837. He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1831 and raised in 1838 to the peerage as Baron Methuen, of Corsham in the County of Wiltshire.
1939–71 President, Royal West of England Academy. 1947 Honorary Associate, Royal Institute of British Architects. 1951 Fellow, Society of Antiquaries. 1951 Associate, Royal Academy. 1959 Royal Academician. Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen RA PPRWA (29 September 1886 – 7 January 1974) was a painter, zoologist and landowner.
Frederick Methuen, 2nd Baron Methuen. Frederick Henry Paul Methuen, 2nd Baron Methuen (23 February 1818 – 26 September 1891), was a British peer and Liberal politician. Methuen was the son of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen, and his wife Jane Dorothea (née St John-Mildmay). He succeeded his father in the barony in 1849 and served as a Lord ...
Anthony John Methuen, 6th Baron Methuen (26 October 1925 – 24 August 1994), was a British peer. Anthony John Methuen (known always as John) was the second but eldest surviving son of Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen , by his wife Grace Durning Holt, daughter of Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st Baronet . [1]
68 killed, 121 wounded, 205 captured [1] 51 killed, wounded, missing. In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War.