Robert Cromie (1855–1907) was a Belfast journalist and novelist. He was the third son of Dr. Cromie J.P., of Clough, the local registrar of births and deaths and ruling elder of Clough Presbyterian church. Robert's elder sister, Annie Howe Cromie,(1849-1939) to whom he was particularly close, was the wife of Sir John Jordan, (the British Ambassador to China between 1906 and 1920) and named her second son after him. Through Cromie's mother, a Miss Henry of Ballyhosset, near Downpatrick, he was descended from Gilbert Howe (c.1626-c.1712), of Ballytrim, near Killyleagh, the confidential servant to James 1st Earl of Clanbrassil, and was thus connected by blood to many of the leading families in East Down.
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1856
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1907 (aged 50)
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