THROCKMORTON, Nicholas (1515/16-71), of London and Paulerspury, Northants.

Family and Education

b. 1515 /16, 4th s. of Sir George Throckmorton, and bro. of Anthony, Clement, George, John I, Kenelm and Robert. m. by 1553, Anne, da. of Sir Nicholas Carew of Beddington, Surr., 10s. inc. Arthur and Nicholas 3da. Kntd. 1970.Aged 35 at Gardiner’s trial in Jan. 1551, Foxe, Acts and Mons. vi. 148, and 46 in 1562, R. G. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 311. Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 87; Vis. Northants. ed. Metcalfe, 200; Add. 5841, p. 200; DNB; PCC 9 Daper.

Offices Held

Page, household of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond by 1532 – 36; servant, household of William, Baron Parr, later Earl of Essex and Marquess of Northampton by 1543; sewer, household of Queen Catherine Parr by 1544–7 or 8; gent. privy chamber by 1549 – 53; under treasurer, Tower II mint 25 Dec. 1549 – 24 June 1552; keeper, Brigstock park, Northants. 14 Sept. 1553 – d.; j.p. Northants. 1558/59; ambassador to France 1563 – 64, to Scotland 1565, 1567; chamberlain, the Exchequer 21 June 1564 – d.; chief butler, Eng. and Wales 28 Nov. 1565–d.Add. 5841, p. 252 seq.; Soc. Antiq. (1790), p. 167; LP Hen. VIII, xvi; Brit. Numismatic Jnl. xlv. 69; APC, iv. 76, 77, 84; CPR, 1549–51, p. 137; 1553, p. 9; 1563–6, pp. 118, 234; CSP Dom. 1601–3, Add. 1547–65, pp. 503, 561.

Parlimentarian

THROCKMORTON, Nicholas (1515/16-71), of London and Paulerspury, Northants.

Main residences: London; Paulerspury, Northants.

Author

S.M.T.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

THROCKMORTON, Nicholas (1515/16-71)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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