page_title: R. W. Ketton-Cremer
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: R. W. Ketton-Cremer / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer was the last private owner of Felbrigg Hall and estate. The Ketton-Cremer family had acquired the hall in a run-down state in 1923, and restored it to its former glory. Robert was a batchelor, and left the hall and estate to the National Trust.
context_page_description: Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, FSA, FRSL, FBA was an English landowner, biographer and historian. He bequeathed his family seat, Felbrigg Hall, to the National Trust.
context_section_description: 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.
  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. Two 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, arguing that Ketton-Cremer had only kept his sexuality a secret because of pervasive homophobia and fear of prosecution during his lifetime.
caption: Memorial in St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg
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