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Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen

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The Lord Methuen
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
15 December 1994 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 6th Baron Methuen
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999 – 9 July 2014
Election1999
Preceded bySeat established[a]
Succeeded byThe 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Personal details
Born(1931-07-22)22 July 1931
Corsham, Wiltshire, England
Died9 July 2014(2014-07-09) (aged 82)
Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England
Political partyLiberal Democrat
Children2 daughters
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
OccupationPolitician

Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (22 July 1931 – 9 July 2014), was a British Liberal Democrat peer. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.

Biography

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Methuen was the third and youngest son of Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen, by his wife Grace Durning Holt, daughter of Sir Richard Durning Holt, Bt.[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Engineering.

Methuen worked as a design engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company from 1957 to 1967, and then as a computer systems engineer for IBM UK Ltd from 1968 to 1975 and for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc from 1975 to 1994. In 1994, he succeeded his elder brother to the title. In the House of Lords, he served on the Science and Technology Select Committee and other committees. He also voted to block the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.[2]

Lord Methuen married firstly Mary Catherine Jane Hooper in 1958; they divorced in 1993. He married secondly Margrit Andrea Hadwiger one year later. He has two daughters by his first wife: Charlotte Mary Methuen (born 1964) and Henrietta Christian Methuen-Jones (born 1965) who later changed her name to Kittie. Kittie was married to Robert Jones (who took the surname Methuen-Jones) and has three children: Teresa Methuen-Jones (born 1990), Keziah Methuen-Jones (born 1992) and Miriam Methuen-Jones (born 1997).

He died after a short illness on 9 July 2014. He was succeeded in the title by his first cousin once removed, James Methuen-Campbell (born 1952).[3]

Ancestry

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Arms

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Coat of arms of Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen
Escutcheon
Argent three wolves’ heads erased Proper on the breast of an eagle with two heads displayed Sable.
Supporters
On either side two fiery lynxes reguardant Proper collared having a line passing between their forelegs reflexed over their backs Or.
Motto
Virtus Invidiae Scopus [4]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Under the House of Lords Act 1999.

References

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  1. ^ www.thepeerage.com Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen
  2. ^ "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill". 4 June 2013.
  3. ^ Care, Adam. "Corsham's Lord Robert Methuen, the 7th Baron Methuen, dies aged 82 (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)". Gazetteandherald.co.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  4. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Methuen
1994–2014
Member of the House of Lords
(1994–1999)
Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office
Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–2014
Succeeded by