# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-methuen-3rd-baron-methuen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:01:58.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-methuen-3rd-baron-methuen"
name: "Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen"
slug: "paul-methuen-3rd-baron-methuen"
description: "Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, 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 mid-1880s. He took a prominent role as General Officer Commanding the 1st Division in the Second Boer War. He suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Magersfontein, during which he failed to carry out adequate reconnaissance and accordingly his artillery bombarded the wrong place leading to the Highland Brigade taking heavy casualties. He was later captured by the Boers at Tweebosch. After the war, he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief in South Africa in 1908, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal in 1910 and then Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta in 1915."
tagline: "British Army officer (1845-1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lord_Methuen00.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1845-09-01"
deathDate: "1932-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Paul Sanford Methuen"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Methuen%2C_III_barone_Methuen"
    title: "Paul Methuen, III barone Methuen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump