Methuen (surname)
Methuen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924), founder of Methuen & Co. Ltd. * Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen (1891–1975), British soldier, architect and peer * Charlotte Methuen (born 1964), British Anglican priest and historian * John Methuen (other) * Paul Methuen (other), various British politicians and scientists {{surname, Methuen ...
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Algernon Methuen
Sir Algernon Marshall Stedman Methuen, Baronet (23 February 1856 – 20 September 1924) was an English publishing, publisher and a teacher of Classics and French language, French. He is best known for founding the publishing company Methuen Publishing, Methuen & Co. Background and education Methuen was born as Algernon Methuen Marshall Stedman in London, the third son of John Buck Stedman, Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, FRCS, and Jane Elizabeth née Marshall. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and then Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated with an Master of Arts, MA. Career After graduating from Oxford, Methuen entered teaching, and rose to become head of High Croft Preparatory School at Milford, Surrey, Milford in Surrey from 1890 to 1895.Obituary of Sir Algernon Methuen. The ''Times'', Monday, 22 September 1924; page 18. Issue 43763. While teaching he began, as a sideline, writing a number of school textbooks under the ''nom-de-plume'' A. W. S. Meth ...
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Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen
Captain Anthony Paul Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen (26 June 1891 – 21 June 1975), was a British soldier, architect and peer. Methuen was the second son of Field Marshal Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, by his wife Mary Ethel Sanford, daughter of William Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead Court, Somerset. He was educated at Wellington College and New College, Oxford. He was wounded in the First World War while serving as a captain in the Scots Guards. He was a chartered architect. He succeeded in the barony in January 1974, aged 82, on the death of his elder brother. Lord Methuen married Grace Durning Holt, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Durning Holt, Baronet, JP (13 November 1868 – 22 March 1941) was a British Liberal Party politician and businessman with interests in shipping. Background and education Holt was born on 13 November 1868 at Edge Lane, in West Derb ..., in 1920. They had four children: *Anthony Richard Paul Methuen (14 Ma ...
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Charlotte Methuen
Charlotte Mary Methuen, (born 1964) is a British Anglican priest, historian, and academic. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Church History at the University of Glasgow. As an academic she specialises in the Reformation in Germany, 20th-century ecumenism, and women's ministry. She was previously a lecturer at Ruhr University Bochum (University of Bochum), the University of Hamburg, the University of Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. She has served as a priest in the Church of England, Scottish Episcopal Church, and the Old Catholic Church in Germany. Early life and education Methuen was born in 1964. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, a comprehensive school in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. She spent a year studying at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama, United States. Then, from 1982 to 1985, she studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985: as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts ...
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John Methuen (other)
John Methuen may refer to: * John Methuen (priest), Anglican priest * John Methuen (diplomat), English diplomat, judge and member of parliament * John Methuen, 6th Baron Methuen Anthony John Methuen, 6th Baron Methuen (26 October 1925 – 24 August 1994), was a British peer. Anthony John Methuen (known always as John) was the second but eldest surviving son of Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen, by his wife Grace Durning ...