Lord Deremore 

Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson (the 6^th Lord Deremore) passed away at the end of August 2006 at the age of 95.  As Patron of All Saints Church here in the village he sent an annual donation.   He was born on April 9 1911 and qualified as a Chartered Architect.  He was the younger son of the 4th Lord Deramore.

He was brought up at the family home, Heslington Hall, in Yorkshire, and educated at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge. Graduating during the Depression, he went on to study for a diploma at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, then went into private practice as a chartered architect in London and Buckinghamshire and later Yorkshire. During the war he served as a pilot in the RAF, flying in a bomber squadron carrying out low-level reconnaissance missions over the Mediterranean.

He returned to his architectural practice after the war and also took a correspondence course in short story-writing from the London School of Journalism and a watercolour course in Suffolk. He succeeded to the Deramore title on the death of his elder brother, the 5th Lord Deramore, in 1964.

He designed and built himself a stately home at Aislaby, near Pickering, to replace Heslington Hall, which had been sold with its estate in the early 1960s; the hall is now part of York University.  The local school in Heslington is the Lord Deremore Primary School.  

He is survived by his wife Janet Mary nee Ware who he married in 1948 and their daughter. 

I have assembled a Family Tree from various sources which show how the Lords Deremore are related to Lady Jane Grey and the Earls of Stamford.  Since Lady Jane and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley had no male heirs and in fact no children at all as did several generations between them the titles cross about resulting in a large number of people.  This means my chart is far too large to print in the magazine even leaving out siblings.  Working on average of five generations per century since 1554 when Lady Jane died there have been more than twenty generations.  I will produce and put it somewhere for viewing and then place it in the village archives.

Pam McMorran - News Editor