Derek Stanford FRSL (11 October 1918 – 19 December 2008) was a British writer, known as a biographer, essayist and poet.
Educated at Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, London, he was a conscientious objector during World War II, serving in the Non-Combatant Corps.
[1] He edited Resistance, a poetry magazine of just one issue, with David West in 1946.
For a period in the early 1950s he worked with Muriel Spark on several books, and was a supporter of hers (together with the eccentric poet Hugo Manning, a long-time friend), in the Poetry Society.
He is associated with the character Hector Bartlett in Muriel Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington (1988).