Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston

Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston VRD (12 February 1910 – 9 April 1991) was a British peer and a naval officer.

Early life Yarde-Buller was born on 12 February 1910. He was the eldest son of John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston and the former actress Denise Orme. After his parents divorced in 1928, his mother married, and later divorced Theodore William Wessel, the former Danish chargé d'affaires in Chile, before marrying the 7th Duke of Leinster in 1946. His siblings were Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller (who married Loel Guinness, Prince Aly Khan, and 2nd Viscount Camrose); After he succeeded to his titles, he inherited Lupton, owning the house until 1960 (when it was sold to Rowland Smith), during most of which time it was let as he did not live there. In 1943, during World War II both the house and estate were requisitioned by the military. The estate played a major role in the support and training of the U.S. Infantry in their preparations for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings.

Upon his father's death on 19 April 1930, he succeeded as the 4th Baron Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton and the 6th Baronet Buller.

He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and fought in World War II. He was awarded the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration in 1949. Hon. Nicole Yarde-Buller (b. 1936), who married, firstly, Richard Wilfred Beavoir Berens, son of Herbert Cecil Berens of Bentworth Hall, in 1958. They divorced in 1962 and she married, secondly, Michael Russell, son of Edward Dennis Russell, in 1963.