Anthony Throckmorton

Anthony Throckmorton (Throgmorton) (1528 – 1592) was a royal courtier, landowner and recusant. He served as an MP in one Elizabethan parliament.

Life Throckmorton was one of the younger sons of Sir George Throckmorton of Coughton and his wife Katherine Vaux, the eldest daughter of Nicholas Vaux of Harrowden by his first wife Elizabeth FitzHugh.

He became a courtier and in 1553 was made keeper of Haseley Park, Warwickshire by Mary I. By April 1555 he had married Katherine (d. 1593) Through her second husband Katherine held the manor of Chastleton, Oxfordshire for life and this became their main residence outside London. He was a recusant, being presented in 1577 for non-attendance at Church. He also suffered periodic bouts of imprisonment in the last 15 years of his life, in part perhaps due to his relationship to his nephew, the conspirator Francis Throckmorton. Katherine Throckmorton married Robert Acton of Ribbesford, Worcs. Margaret Throckmorton (born 1571). Elizabeth Throckmorton (1573–1636) married Richard Acton, brother of Robert.