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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

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Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, (1 September 1845 – 30 October 1932) was a British Army officer. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then in the expedition of Sir Charles Warren to Bechuanaland in the ...

, by his wife Mary Ethel Sanford, daughter of William Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead Court,

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and

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. He was wounded in the

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while serving as a

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in the

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. 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

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, in 1920. They had four children: *Anthony Richard Paul Methuen (14 May 1923 – 8 December 1934). * Anthony John Methuen, 6th Baron Methuen (26 October 1925 – 24 August 1994). *Hon. Elizabeth Penelope Methuen (4 July 1928 – 13 July 2017). * Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (22 July 1931 – 9 July 2014). Lady Methuen died in August 1972, aged 74. Lord Methuen died in June 1975, aged 83, and was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, John.

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