METHUEN, Paul Cobb (1752-1816), of Corsham, Wilts.

Methuen was returned in place of his father on the Ailesbury interest. No vote or speech by him is reported. Robinson in his memorandum for Lord Shelburne, 7 Aug. 1782, notes: ‘Mr. Methuen attends but little ... when he did he mostly supported the old Government. Is very independent.’Laprade, 46. In March 1783 Robinson classed him as ‘country gentleman; doubtful’, and in January 1784 as ‘doubtful, some hope’; but Stockdale’s list of 19 Mar. marks him as ‘absent’. Methuen did not stand again in 1784.

He died 15 Sept. 1816.