METHUEN, BARONY OF

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METHUEN, BARONY OF . The English title of Baron Methuen of Corsham (Wilts) was created in 1838 for Paul Methuen (17791849), who had been a Tory member of

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

for Wilts from 1812 to 1819, and then sat as a Whig for North Wilts from 1833 to 1838. His father, Paul Methuen, was the

cousin

and

heir

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

of the wealthy Sir Paul Methuen (16721757), a well-known politician, courtier, diplomatist and patron of art and literature, who was the son of John Methuen (c. 1650-1706), Lord Chancellor of Ireland (16971703) and

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Portugal. It was the last-named who in 1703 negotiated the famous " Methuen Treaty," which, in return for the admission of English woollens into Portugal, granted differential duties favouring the importation of Portuguese wines into England to the disadvantage of French, and thus displaced the drinking of

Burgundy

BURGUNDY

by that of port. He and his son were both buried in Westminster Abbey. The 1st baron was succeeded in the title by his son Frederick

Henry

Paul Methuen (18181891), and the latter by his son Paul, 3rd baron (b. 1845), a distinguished soldier, who became a major-general in 189o, and general officercommanding-in-

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

in South Africa in 1907. The 3rd baron joined the Scots Guards in 1864, served in the Ashanti War of 1874 and the Egyptian War of 1882, and commanded Methuen's Horse in

Bechuanaland

BECHUANALAND (a name given from its inhabitants, the Bechuana, q.v.)

in 188485, and the first division of the 1st Army Corps in the South African War of 1899-1902. (See TRANSVAAL.)

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