He married Elizabeth Cheney, her age 18, him age 14, the year his father died and he succeeded. While they were not relations, his father had once been married to her grandmother, and so they had Throckmorton cousins in common.

He sold his only crown office, the governorship of Jersey, to Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp.

Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany, 1557). They are "The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the "Dittye... representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes. Thirteen pieces in the Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576) are signed by him.

Lord Thomas died in Oct 1556. Sketches of Vaux and his wife by Holbein are at Windsor, and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux is at Hampton Court.

Elizabeth Cheney

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