Nicholas Throckmorton (alias Carew) MP for Surrey. Throckmorton or Carew died in February 1644, and was buried in Beddington church. One of his great-grandsons was Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet, another Member of Parliament. Throckmorton married firstly by 1599, Mary More, daughter of Sir George More of Loseley Park, Surrey, and had five sons and three daughters. 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 Elizabeth who married Sir Walter Raleigh. Nicholas Throckmorton (alias Carew) Sir
Elizabeth Bennet argues that Austen's ironical way of depicting Elizabeth allows her to present her heroine as both a "proto-feminist" and a "fairy-tale heroine". At one point, Elizabeth says: "I am resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to "you", or to any other person wholly unconnected with me". The American scholar Claudia Johnson wrote this was a surprisingly strong statement for a female character in 1813. Likewise, Elizabeth does not defer to the traditional elite, saying of Lady Catherine's opposition to her marrying Darcy: "Neither duty nor honor nor gratitude have