# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-cromie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:28.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-cromie"
name: "Francis Cromie"
slug: "francis-cromie"
description: "Acting Captain Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB, DSO was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer, military diplomat, and the de facto chief of British Intelligence operations in northern Russia for the British Naval Intelligence Division. At the outbreak of World War I he was commanding officer of the British Royal Navy China Hong Kong submarine flotilla, and from 1915 assumed command of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic. Later during the First World War and Russian Revolution he was naval attaché to the diplomatic staff of the British Embassy in Petrograd, Russia, where he met his death, while defending the British embassy premises."
tagline: "British Royal Navy Commander, Naval attaché (1882–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/British_Royal_Navy_Captain_Francis_Newton_Cromie_(1882-1918)_-_Naval_Attach%C3%A9.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1882-01-30"
deathDate: "1918-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.88
  momentum:             3.529411764705882
  historical:           5.686430666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cromie"
    title: "Francis Cromie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cromie"
    title: "Francis Cromie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cromie"
    title: "Francis Cromie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cromie"
    title: "Francis Cromie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cromie"
    title: "Francis Cromie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Кроми, Фрэнсис Ньютон Аллан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1441452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump