William Cromer (died 1450)

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William Cromer (also spelled Crowmer) (c. 1416 – 4 July 1450) was an English noble who served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1444. He was the son of Sir William Cromer, a former Lord Mayor of London, and Margaret Squery. He married Elizabeth Fiennes of Herstmonceux by 1435, and they had a son named James.

In 1444 Cromer became High Sheriff of Kent. During Jack Cade's Rebellion in 1450, he and his father-in-law James Fiennes were captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London. James was beheaded after a sham trial at Guildhall, and William was executed outside the London Wall by the rebels.

Elizabeth later married Alexander Iden, who helped capture Cade and became High Sheriff of Kent in 1456. She then married Lawrence Raynsford, who later served as High Sheriff of Essex in 1465 and Wiltshire in 1470.

Cromer’s coat of arms was Argent, a chevron engrailed between three crows, sable. He was buried in London.