Sir Nicholas Throckmorton or Carew (died February 1644) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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in two parliaments between 1601 and 1622. Throckmorton was the son of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton of

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, Northamptonshire and his wife Anne Carew, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew of

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, Surrey. His father died when he was still a child and he was left £500 and a half share in the salt monopoly. His mother died in 1587 and left him jewellery and household goods - despite using her name frequently, he was passed over under male-line primogeniture by a grant of the manors of Beddington and

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in 1589 to kinsman Sir Edward Darcy. Throckmorton was in Italy by 1588 and received education in Padua in 1590. In 1601, he was elected

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for

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. He was knighted in June 1603 at Beddington and was a J.P for Surrey. He inherited under the will of his uncle Francis Carew of Beddington and changed his name to Carew in May 1611. He was appointed

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in 1613, serving until his death. In 1621 he was elected MP for

.History of Parliament Online -Throckmorton (afterwards Carew), Nicholas
/ref> Throckmorton or Carew died in February 1644, and was buried in Beddington church. Throckmorton married firstly by 1599, Mary More, daughter of Sir George More of

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, and had five sons and three daughters. He wrote to More for financial assistance in 1604, "which if I cannot have I must leave my country, and my wife and children to the parish."

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, ''Loseley Manuscripts'' (London, 1836), pp. 360-1. He married secondly by 1618, Susan Butler, née Bright, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, widow of Henry Butler merchant of London and had a son and daughter. He was the brother of Arthur Throckmorton and of

who married

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. One of his great-grandsons was

Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet (6 February 1687 – 18 March 1727), of Beddington, near Croydon was a landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1727. Carew was only surviving son and heir of Sir Francis Carew ...

, another Member of Parliament.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Throckmorton, Nicholas Year of birth missing 1644 deaths English MPs 1601 English MPs 1621–1622

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