Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen
- Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen
Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (born 22 July 1931) is a British peer. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.
A younger son of the 5th Baron Methuen, he was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in engineering in 1957. In 1994, he succeeded his elder brother to the title. Methuen worked as design engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company from 1957 to 1967, and then as computer systems engineer for IBM UK Ltd from 1968 to 1975 and for Rolls-Royce plc from 1975 to 1994. During his time in the House of Lords he has served on the Science and Technology Select Committee and other committees.
Lord Methuen married firstly Mary Catherine Jane Hooper in 1958. Divorced in 1993, he married secondly Margrit Andrea Hadwiger one year later. He has two daughters by his first wife: Charlotte Methuen (born 1964) and Christian (Kittie) Methuen-Jones (born 1965)..
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