Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen

He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1831 and raised in 1838 to the peerage as Baron Methuen, of Corsham in the County of Wiltshire.

[3] Lord Methuen married Jane Dorothea, daughter of Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay, in 1810.

Lord Methuen survived her by three years and died in September 1849, aged 70.

Methuen played in a first-class cricket match in 1816 for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) but was dismissed without scoring in both his innings.

He was born at Marylebone, London, and died aged 69 at Westminster.