R. W. 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.[1] He became the squire of Felbrigg Hall on the death of his father in 1933. Wyndham Ketton-Cremer's heir, his brother Richard, died in action in 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. He was the author of Felbrigg, the Story of a House (London, 1962).
Ketton-Cremer wrote widely on the history of his native Norfolk. He also wrote biographies of the novelist Horace Walpole and the poet Thomas Gray, winning the James Tait Black Award for the latter.
