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R. W. Ketton-Cremer (Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer) was born on 2 May, 1906 in Plympton, Devon, England, is an English historian. Discover R. W. Ketton-Cremer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer
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Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 2 May, 1906
Birthday 2 May
Birthplace Plympton, Devon, England
Date of death 12 December, 1969
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1906

Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, (2 May 1906 – 12 December 1969) was an English landowner, biographer and historian.

He bequeathed his family seat, Felbrigg Hall, to the National Trust.

Robert Wyndham Cremer was born in Plympton, Devon, on 2 May 1906 to Wyndham Cremer Ketton-Cremer and his wife Emily Bayly.

He was educated at Harrow School.

1924

He and his brother assumed the surname Ketton-Cremer in 1924.

He won an exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford where he read English Literature.

While at Oxford he published poetry.

He was a descendant of the Wyndham family, who owned the Felbrigg estate in Norfolk, and was known as "the Last Squire".

1933

He inherited the estate on the death of his father in 1933.

Wyndham Ketton-Cremer's heir, his younger 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.

Ketton-Cremer never married.

He was a closet homosexual, at a time when homosexual acts were still criminalised though

close friends were aware of his sexuality.

1951

He served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1951–52 and was a trustee of National Portrait Gallery.

Ketton-Cremer wrote widely on the history of his native Norfolk as well as number of biographies, including one of Whig statesman William Windham, one of politician Horace Walpole, and one of the poet Thomas Gray, for which he won the James Tait Black Award.

1968

In 1968, Ketton-Cremer was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

He was also an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

1969

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (LittD) by the University of East Anglia in 1969.

Ketton-Cremer died on 12 December 1969.

He bequeathed Felbrigg Hall to the National Trust.

A brief memoir was written shortly after his death by the literary scholar Mary Lascelles.

1988

With regard to intimate relationships, the novelist and critic Anthony Powell, who dedicated his novel The Kindly Ones to Ketton-Cremer (who read proofs of Powell's books and suggested improvements, up to the time of his death) wrote in 1988, questioning the appropriateness of Ketton-Cremer's name being included in a "list of homosexual undergraduates" in Bevis Hillier's Young Betjeman, "I knew Ketton-Cremer... and never heard a suggestion that he had physical relations with another human being, then [at Oxford] or throughout his life."

He stood godfather to the children of his friends, including Tristram Powell, son of Anthony Powell.

He was a justice of the peace and as such was required to witness two hangings.

He was a major in the East Norfolk Home Guard during the Second World War.

1995

An annotated bibliography was published in 1995.

His works include:

2017

To mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of sexual activity between men in England and Wales, in summer 2017 the National Trust organised a national "Prejudice and Pride" campaign highlighting the LGBT themes in its properties.

At Felbrigg Hall that included displaying a short film— narrated by Stephen Fry— in which it was revealed that Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer was gay, a fact previously only known to his close friends.

Three of Ketton-Cremer's godchildren criticised the decision, claiming that a public outing would have been against Ketton-Cremer's wishes and accusing the Trust of using their godfather's private life to generate publicity.

Fry defended the Trust's decision, justifying it by stating that in his view Ketton-Cremer had only kept his sexuality a secret because of pervasive homophobia and fear of prosecution during his lifetime.

Catherine Bennett, in The Guardian, considered it "unfortunate" that the Trust attached the "ambiguous" Ketton-Cremer, who "had neither, his family says, come out nor moved... in circles where homosexuality was unconcealed" to the Prejudice and Pride campaign, as opposed to a figure such as the openly gay James Lees-Milne, "who more or less assembled the Trust's collection of historic houses"; the "dire" short film featuring "someone silently [impersonating] Ketton-Cremer" was considered "undeniably ambitious in imagining how [Ketton-Cremer] must have felt about his sexuality" in light of the fact that "unhelpfully, the squire appears to have left no records."

Fry's stance- that objection to the dubiously-accurate "outing" of Ketton-Cremer must be attributed to homophobia- was also criticised as lacking nuance.