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Landscape and figure painter. Born at Corsham, Wiltshire, son of Field-Marshal Lord Methuen. Educated at New College, Oxford, taking a Degree in Natural Science 1910. Studied under Sir Charles Holmes at Oxford and later under Sickert. Assistant at the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, 1910-14; served in the Scots Guards 1914-19; First one-man show at the Warren Gallery 1928. Trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery 1938-45; Monuments and Fine Arts Officer 1944-5. Exhibited with the N.E.A.C. from 1931 (member 1943) and with the R.B.A. from 1936 (member 1939). President of the Royal West of England Academy since 1939. He joined the Inland Waterways Association and became their first member in either house of parliament. As such he asked questions on the obstruction at Lifford Bridge on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.
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