Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen

He served Gold Coast 1873, Ashanti War 1874; Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief of Ireland 1877; Lt Col Scots Guards 1876-81; Military Attaché, Berlin 1877-80; Quartermaster General, Home District 1881-84; CB 1882; Commandant, Egypt Expedition 1882 and Bechuanaland 1885; CMG 1886; Deputy Adjutant General, South Africa 1888-91; Maj Gen 1892; Officer Commanding Home District 1892-97, Afridi Expedition 1897, North West Frontier 1897-98 and South African War 1899-1902; KCVO 1897; Lt Gen 1898; KCB 1900; GCB 1902; Gen 1904; General Officer Commanding, Eastern Command 1904-08 and South Africa 1908-12; Governor of Natal 1910; GCVO 1910; Field Marshal 1911; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta 1914-19; GCMG 1919; Constable of the Tower of London 1920-32

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Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DL (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 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.

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