Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone

Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baronet (21 September 1732 – 14 July 1807) was a British Member of Parliament.

[1] Vanden-Bampde-Johnstone was elected to the House of Commons for Weymouth in 1790, a seat he held until 1796.

On 6 July 1795 he was created a Baronet, of Hackness Hall in the North Riding of the County of York.

He died in July 1807, aged 74, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son John.

His grandson Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 3rd Baronet, was raised to the peerage as Baron Derwent in 1881.