Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore

Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore (9 April 1911 – 20 August 2006) was a British architect, writer of erotic fiction, and a peer of the United Kingdom.

During World War II, Lord Deramore served as a pilot in the RAFVR, flying low-level reconnaissance missions in the Mediterranean.

He designed his own home, to replace the family seat at Heslington Hall.

The Hall had been taken over by the RAF in the war and remained unoccupied afterwards, until it was sold to become the headquarters of the University of York in 1962.

Determined to pursue a career as a writer, he collected many rejection letters before a short story, A Touch of Bird Lime, was published.