Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas

by Joseph Foster

Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, created M.A. 6 Sept., 1566, a wise and stout man lately leiger ambassador in France, 'as he had been in Scotland,' chief butler of England and chamberlain of the exchequer (4s. Sir George, of Coughton, co. Warwick); knighted by Edward VI.; M.P. Malden 1545-7, Devizes, 1547-52, Northants March, 1553, Old Sarum Oct.-Dec. 1553, Lyme Regis 1559, and Tavistock 1563-7; died in London 12 Feb., 1570-1; father of Arthur 1571. See Lansdowne MS. 981, f. 104b; Fasti, i. 177; & Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary.