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Author: Methuen, Paul

Biography:

METHUEN, Paul (1779-1849: findmypast.com)

Methuen, baptised at St. Marylebone, London, on 17 Jul. 1779, came of a distinguished line of diplomats and politicians with a family seat (from 1747) at Corsham in Wiltshire. His father Paul Cobb Methuen (1752-1816) was an MP and High Sheriff of Wiltshire, and his mother was Matilda Gooch, the daughter of a baronet; they had married at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, on 18 Apr. 1776. Like his father, Paul went to Oxford, matriculating at Christ Church in 1797. He did not take a degree but served as MP for Wiltshire 1812-19 and for North Wiltshire 1833-7—at first as a Tory but later as a Whig. He also served as Deputy Lieutenant of his county. Upon his losing his seat to Sir Francis Burdett in 1838, he was raised to the peerage as the first Baron Methuen of Corsham. On 31 July 1810 he married Jane Dorothea Mildmay (d 1846), with whom he had four children. The youthful collection of poems published in 1810, which includes an epitaph for a sister, is his only known literary work. Methuen died at his town house on Park St., Grosvenor Square, on 14 Sept. 1849. (findmypast.com 1 June 2023; GM Nov. 1849, 537-8; Alumni Oxonienses)

 

Other Names:

  • Paul Methuen, Jr.
 

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