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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 ...
UTC-4 ( EDT) Postal Code. K0L 1Z0. Area code (s) 705, 249. Website. www.hbmtwp.ca. Havelock-Belmont-Methuen is a township in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Peterborough County. On January 1, 1998, Belmont and Methuen Township amalgamated with the Village of Havelock to form what is now Havelock-Belmont-Methuen.
Biography[edit] 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 ...
The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between England and Portugal that was signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession . The treaty stipulated that no tax higher than the tax charged for an equal amount of French wines could be charged for Portuguese wines ( but see below) exported to England, and that English ...
Shout Across the River is a stage play, written by Stephen Poliakoff, which premiered at the RSC Donmar Warehouse (at that time called The Warehouse) in London in September 1978. It was directed by Bill Alexander. It featured Gwyneth Strong in the lead role of a troubled eighteen-year-old girl.
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 .
January 20, 1984. Stephen Barker House is a historic house at 165 Haverhill Street in Methuen, Massachusetts . Built in 1839, it is one of several handsome houses built at the periphery of the Methuen settlement in the mid-19th Century, and remains a well conserved "country Residence". Reportedly, surveyor Stephen Barker built "Woodland Cottage ...
Charles Henry Tenney I. Charles Henry Tenney (July 9, 1842 – April 27, 1919) was proprietor of C. H. Tenney & Co., established 1868, and become one of the most successful commissioned merchant and hat dealers in the world. He was also a director of the Bank of the Manhattan Company and life trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank.