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Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer was an English biographer and historian. He was a descendant of the Wyndham family of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, and was educated at Harrow and Oxford. 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.
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.
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