Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet

Sir Robert George Throckmorton, 8th Baronet (5 December 1800 – 28 June 1862) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1835.

Early life Throckmorton was born on 5 December 1800 at Queen Street, Mayfair, London. Throckmorton was the eldest son of William Throckmorton and his wife Frances Gifford, daughter of Thomas Gifford, 22nd of Chillington. The Throckmortons were a prominent Roman Catholic family, who continued to hear mass at the family home Coughton Court, Alcester, Warwickshire. In 1826 the family estate at Molland in Devon devolved to Throckmorton when his uncle succeeded to the baronetcy.

Career The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 allowed Catholics to hold national office for the first time in almost three hundred years. Throckmorton took advantage of the change in the law to become one of the first Catholic MPs after Daniel O'Connell achieved the feat in 1828 and eventually had Catholic Emancipation signed into law. the location of his third country estate, Buckland Park (though it is now in Oxfordshire). He held the seat until 1835.

He also became a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Berkshire. He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1843. Courtenay Throckmorton (1831–1854), who died unmarried. Sir Richard Charles Acton Throckmorton, 10th Baronet (1839–1927), who married Frances Stewart Moore, daughter of Maj. John Arthur Moore (a director of the East India Company) and Sophia Stewart ( Yates) Moore, in 1866. After her death, he married Florence Helen Brigg, daughter of John Fligg Brigg and Martha Ann Adelaide Lockwood, in 1921.