Background
Methuen was the son of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen, and his wife Jane Dorothea (née Street John-Mildmay).
Methuen was the son of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen, and his wife Jane Dorothea (née Street John-Mildmay).
He succeeded his father in the barony in 1849 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) under Lord Palmerston and later Lord Russell between 1859 and 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1874, 1880 to 1885 and in 1886. He was also an Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria. He played once for the Marylebone Cricket Club in June 1843.
Lord Methuen married Anna Horatia Caroline, daughter of Reverend John Sanford, in 1844.
Lady Methuen died in 1899.
