Sir Charles Throckmorton, 7th Baronet (2 November 1757 – 3 December 1840), was a member of a prominent English family of Roman Catholic dissenters.
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Early life
Throckmorton was born on 2 November 1757 and baptised at Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire into a wealthy and staunchly Roman Catholic family. He was the son of George Throckmorton and Anne Maria Paston. His elder siblings were Robert Throckmorton (died unmarried in 1779), Sir John Throckmorton, 5th Baronet (who married Maria Catherine Giffard), Teresa Throckmorton (wife of Thomas Metcalf), Sir George Courtenay-Throckmorton, 6th Baronet (who married Catherine Stapleton). His younger brother was William Throckmorton (who married Frances Giffard and was the father of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet).
His father was the eldest surviving son of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet and, his first wife, Lady Theresa Herbert (a daughter of William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis and the former Mary Preston). His maternal grandparents were William Paston of Horton Court and Mary (née Courtenay) Paston. Through his father's marriage to his mother, the Throckmorton family acquired the Manor of Molland in Devon.
Career
Upon the death of his elder brother, George, on 16 July 1826, he succeeded as the 7th Baronet Throckmorton, of Coughton.
Personal life
On 28 December 1787, Throckmorton married Mary Margaretta Plowden (b. c. 1769) in Clifton, Gloucestershire. She was a daughter of Edmund Plowden and Elizabeth Lucy (née Thompson) Plowden. Mary's paternal grandmother, Hon. Frances (née Dormer) Plowden, was the daughter of Charles Dormer, 5th Baron Dormer of Wyng, and her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth (née Lucy) Thompson, was the daughter of Sir Berkeley Lucy, 3rd Baronet. Mary's younger sister, Elizabeth Lucy Plowden, was the wife of Sir Henry Tichborne, 7th Baronet.
He died on 3 December 1840 at age 83, without issue. As his younger brother predeceased him, his nephew, Robert, inherited the baronetcy and estates in five counties.