Education
Lord Deramore was educated at Harrow School and the Saint John"s College, Cambridge, and after graduation, he earned a diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Lord Deramore was educated at Harrow School and the Saint John"s College, Cambridge, and after graduation, he earned a diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
He worked as a charted architect in London, Buckinghamshire, and Yorkshire. During World World War II, Lord Deramore served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, flying low-level reconnaissance missions in the Mediterranean. After the war, he returned to his architectural practice, but also pursued other interests.
He designed his own home, to replace the family seat at Heslington Hall.
The Hall had been taken over by the Royal Air Force 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.
His first novel, Still Waters was published in 1997. He lost his seat in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Acting 1999.
Upon his death in 2006, aged 95, the barony and baronetcy became extinct.
