Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet

Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet (11 December 1629 – 31 July 1681) of Clearwell, Gloucestershire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1679.

Throckmorton was the son of Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1606–64) and his wife Margaret Hopton, daughter of Robert Hopton.

In June 1660 he was elected MP for Wotton Basset in a by-election to the Convention Parliament.

[3] He was popular with the Forest of Dean miners, and was elected a "Free Miner" of the Forest of Dean in 1668 and sat as judge of the courts of mine law at Clearwell, his principal manor, in 1668, 1676 and 1680.

[2] The baronetcy passed to his cousin, Sir William Throckmorton, 4th Baronet, and Clearwell was sold in 1684 to Francis Wyndham of Ufford's Manor, Norfolk.

Arms of Throckmorton: Gules, on a chevron argent three bars gemelles sable . Crest: A falcon rising proper belled and jessed or . Mottos: (1): Virtus Sola Nobilitas (Virtue is the only nobility); (2): Moribus Antiquis (With ancient manners) [ 1 ]