This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Ensign of the Lord-Lieutenant The title Lord-Lieutenant is given to the British monarchs personal representatives around the United Kingdom. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
Lord Methuen was married twice, first to Evelyn, the eldest daughter of Sir Frederick Hutchingson Hervey-Bathurst, third baronet of Clarandon Park, Wiltshire.
Lord Methuen died at Corsham Court on October 30, 1932 and was succeeded by his son Paul Ayshford, the 4th Baron Methuen.
Lord Methuen was considered as a man of great courage, fighting in the lines even with his high rank, chivalrous, kindly, generous with high standards of duty.
Early on, he showed himself antagonistic to the court, to Roman Catholicism, and to the extension of the royal prerogative, and was coupled by Charles II with Denzil Holles as "stiff and sullen men," who would not yield against their convictions to his solicitations.
The purity and patriotism of his administration were in strong contrast to the hopeless corruption prevalent in that at home and naturally aroused bitter opposition, as an obstacle to the unscrupulous employment of Irish revenues for the satisfaction of the court and the king's expenses.
He immediately joined the country party and the opposition to Lord Danby's government, and on the latter's fall in 1679 was appointed a commissioner of the treasury, and the same year a member of Sir William Temple's new-modelled council.
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