Frederick Cranley

Frederick William Cranley (c. 184714 July 1877) was a bushranger in the Colony of New South Wales, Australia.

While little is documented about Cranley's early life, he was said to have been born in the East Indies, and worked near Tamworth in New South Wales as a fencer.

In 1877, Cranley, along with his companion Stephen Ware Wonnocott, decided to take up bushranging. Their new career was cut short on 14 July of that year when they stuck up W. C. Avery's Telegraph Hotel in Bendemeer. Cranley threatened the staff with his revolver and fired a shot, narrowly missing W. C. Avery's wife. In the chaos, word got out that bushrangers were robbing the hotel, prompting Constable Edward Mostyn Webb-Bowen to ride to the scene and confront Cranley and Wonnocott. Bowen ordered Cranley to surrender, but the bushranger shot twice at the constable, the second shot misfiring. Bowen returned fire, fatally wounding Cranley, who died shortly after.