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Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer


Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969) was an English biographer and historian. He was a descendant of the Wyndham family of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, and was educated at Harrow before winning an Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford to read English Literature. He inherited the Felbrigg estate on the death of his father in 1933. Wyndham Ketton-Cremer's heir, his brother Richard, died in Crete during the Second World War. Ketton-Cremer also owned the Beeston Regis estate, including what is now Beeston Hall School. Wyndham Ketton-Cremer was homosexual and never married, and bequeathed Felbrigg Hall to the National Trust upon his death.

Ketton-Cremer wrote widely on the history of his native Norfolk and won and the James Tait Black Award for his biography of the poet Thomas Gray. His works include:


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