The son of Paul Cobb Methuen; he was Whig MP for Wiltshire (1812-19) and North Wiltshire (1832-37), raised to the peerage in 1838. He was a friend of John Cam Hobhouse.

REFERENCES TO Paul Methuen, first baron Methuen:

Thomas Moore to Francis Hodgson, 13 November 1828 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 23 June 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)