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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 ...
John Methuen (1650–1706) was an English diplomat, judge and Member of Parliament. He held office simultaneously as Lord Chancellor of Ireland and English ambassador to Portugal . In the latter role, he and his son Paul negotiated the Methuen Treaty , the achievement for which John is chiefly remembered.
Biography. 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 ...
Captain Anthony Paul Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen (26 June 1891 – 21 June 1975), was a British soldier, architect and peer. Methuen, born in Wiltshire , [1] was the second son of Field Marshal Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen , by his wife Mary Ethel Sanford, daughter of William Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead Court, Somerset . [2]
Paul Methuen (diplomat) Methuen painted posthumously by Adrien Carpentiers. Sir Paul Methuen PC KB ( c. 1672 – 11 April 1757), of Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, was an English diplomat and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1747. He was an envoy to Portugal between 1697 and 1708 and later a holder of public offices ...
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]
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 ...
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 .