Background
Derwent was born in London on 22 October 1899, the son of Honorary Edward Henry Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, younger son of Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baron Derwent.
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Merton College.
Career
On leaving Merton he joined the diplomatic service and served as an honorary attaché from 1929 at Warsaw, Brussels and Madrid. At the start of the Second World War he was in Berne before he returned to the United Kingdom in 1942 to serve in the Royal Air Force until 1944. As an author and poet Derwent wrote under his own name but also the pen name George Vanden.
Two volumes of poetry were published in 1931 (Fifty Poems) and 1943 (Before Zero Hour).
Derwent was a Liberal party politician and president of the Yorkshire Liberal Federation. Family Derwent married Countess Sabine Czaykowska Iliesco in 1929, the daughter of Romanian General Iliesco.
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Political Party
Liberal party