Nicholas Throckmorton
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Sir Nicholas Throckmorton was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and later Scotland. He played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary,
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, c. 1562 by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515–1571) An(no) Aetatis Suae 49 ("in the 49th year of his age", i.e. 1564). English, 16th-century Throckmorton Collection, Coughton Court, Warwickshire, Property of the National Trust, NTPL Ref. No. 153603
Throckmorton's monument in St. Katharine Cree parish church, London
Francis Walsingham
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Sir Francis Walsingham was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
Nicholas Throckmorton
…and former Master of Horse of Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk. Contemporary political figures regarded Throckmorton with respect. One of these was Sir Francis Walsingham who had worked with Throckmorton in France. In 1560 William Cecil said he would be prepared to resign if Throckmorton would take his place and spoke…
c. 1585 portrait
Ruins of Scadbury Hall, seat of the Walsingham family, Chislehurst, Kent
Seventeenth-century engraving of Queen Elizabeth with William Cecil (left) and Francis Walsingham (right)
Famous portrait of Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada