Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen

Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen (21 June 1779 – 14 September 1849{{Cite news|date=17 September 1849|title=Death of Lord Methuen|page=3|work=Morning Advertiser|issue=18166|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18490917/023/0003|url-access=subscription|access-date=21 June 2020|via=British Newspaper Archive}}), was a British Whig{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|author-link= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885

|orig-year=1977

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-26-4

|page=480

}} politician who was raised to the peerage in 1838.

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 of Wiltshire.{{London Gazette |issue=19629 |date=26 June 1838 |page=1445}}

Lord Methuen married Jane Dorothea, daughter of Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay, in 1810. She died in 1846. Lord Methuen survived her by three years and died in September 1849, aged 70. He was succeeded in the barony by his son Frederick. His grandson Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, became a prominent military commander.

Methuen played in a first-class cricket match in 1816 for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) but was dismissed without scoring in both his innings. He was born at Marylebone, London, and died aged 69 at Westminster.{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37307/37307.html |publisher=CricketArchive |title=Paul Methuen |access-date=23 March 2013}}

Arms

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|image = File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg File:Methuen Escutcheon.png

|escutcheon = Argent three wolves’ heads erased Proper on the breast of an eagle with two heads displayed Sable.

|supporters = On either side two fiery lynxes reguardant Proper collared having a line passing between their forelegs reflexed over their backs Or.

|motto = Virtus Invidiae Scopus {{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1959}}}}

References

Bibliography

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
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{{succession box

| title = Member of Parliament for Wiltshire

| with = Richard Godolphin Long 1812–1818

| with2 = William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley 1818–1819

| before = Henry Penruddocke Wyndham
Richard Godolphin Long

| after = William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley
John Benett

| years = 1812–1819

}}

{{s-ttl

| title = Member of Parliament for Wiltshire North

| with = Sir John Dugdale Astley 1832–1835

| with2 = Walter Long 1835–1837