Frederick Henry Paul Methuen, 2nd Baron Methuen (23 February 1818 – 26 September 1891), was a British

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 peer

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 and Liberal

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 politician.

Methuen was the son of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen

Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen

Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen , was a British Whig politician.Methuen was the son of Paul Cobb Methuen of Corsham, Wiltshire, and his wife Matilda . He sat as Member of Parliament for Wiltshire from 1812 to 1819 and for Wiltshire North from 1833 to 1837...

, and his wife Jane Dorothea (née St John-Mildmay). He succeeded his father in the barony in 1849 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords

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) under Lord Palmerston

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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 and later Lord Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

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 between 1859 and 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

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 from 1868 to 1874, 1880 to 1885 and in 1886. He was also an Aide-de-Camp

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 to Queen Victoria

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.

Lord Methuen married Anna Horatia Caroline, daughter of Reverend John Sanford, in 1844. He died in September 1891, aged 73, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Paul

Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen

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, who became a noted military commander. Lady Methuen died in 1899.