Algernon Methuen

Sir Algernon Marshall Stedman Methuen, Baronet (/ˈældʒərnən ˈmɛθjuən/; 23 February 1856 – 20 September 1924) was an English publisher and a teacher of Classics and French.

After graduating from Oxford, Methuen entered teaching, and rose to become head of High Croft Preparatory School at Milford in Surrey from 1890 to 1895.

[1] While teaching he began, as a sideline, writing a number of school textbooks under the nom-de-plume A. W. S. Methuen, of which his series on French, Greek and Latin were best known.

He later published works by Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.

He stood for Parliament as the Liberal party candidate for the seat of Guildford in the General Election of January 1910.