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.

Throckmorton was born on 5 December 1800 at Queen Street, Mayfair, London.

In 1826 the family estate at Molland in Devon devolved to Throckmorton when his uncle succeeded to the baronetcy.

[3] He built a new Catholic church at the end of the south drive of Coughton Court, next to the ruins of the church built by an earlier Throckmorton in the 15th century which was confiscated from the family during the Reformation.

Together, they were the parents of five sons and four daughters, including:[3] Throckmorton died on 28 June 1862, at the age of 61, at Hereford Street in Park Lane, London.