Thomas Throckmorton (1533 – March 1618[1] ) was an English politician, a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Warwickshire in 1558 and Warwick in 1559.
[1] He spent much of his life undergoing fines and long periods of imprisonment for recusancy.
[1] According to a Warwickshire website, Thomas Throckmorton went abroad before the Gunpowder Plot (1605),[2][unreliable source?]
[1][2] Throckmorton was not implicated in the plot, but fines for recusancy, previously waived, were reimposed.
He is the eldest son of Anthony Throckmorton, a Mercer of St. Martin's Lane, Westminster and Chastleton, Oxfordshire; Thomas married Julian, the widow of Thomas Wye of Lypiatt.