Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet (8 or 12 November 1625 – 24 June 1684) of Surrenden Dering,

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, Kent was an English

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who sat in the

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at various times between 1660 and 1674.

Life

Dering was the eldest surviving son and heir of

Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet (1598–1644) of Surrenden Dering, Pluckley, Kent was an English antiquary and politician. Ancestry and childhood Dering was the eldest son of Sir Anthony Dering (d. 1636) of Surrenden Dering. His mother, Sir Antho ...

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by his second marriage to Anne, sister of John Ashburnham. He was educated at Heathfield in 1632, Cripplegate, London under Thomas Farnaby in 1633, Throwley under Mr Craig from 1634 to 1637, and Woodford under Mr Copping from 1637 to 1639.History of Parliament Online – Dering, Edward
/ref> He was admitted as a fellow-commoner to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1640 and transferred to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1642 and was awarded BA in 1643. In 1644 he entered

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. He was 18 at the death of his father, who left a widow and several young children in 1644. He went to Leyden in 1644 and travelled abroad in the Netherlands and France until 1646. In April 1660 Dering was elected

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for

in the Convention Parliament. He was appointed one of the six commissioners for executing the Irish

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in July 1662 and was returned to the

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for Lisburn. In 1670 he was elected MP for

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in a by-election to the

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. He was elected MP for

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in the two elections of 1679 and in 1681. He was also appointed a commissioner of the

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in 1679. Dering died in London aged 58 and was buried at Pluckley.

Family

Dering married Mary Harvey, daughter of Daniel Harvey (a brother of Dr

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) by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Kynnersley on 5 April 1648. They had 17 children, of whom 10 survived to adulthood. He was succeeded in his estates and title by his son

Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet (18 April 1650 – 15 October 1689) was an English Member of Parliament and baronet. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet of Surrenden Dering House in Pluckley, Kent and his wife Mary Harvey, a ...

. Among the other children, Elizabeth was married to Sir Robert Southwell, by whom she is ancestral to

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; Catherine to Sir John Perceval, 3rd Baronet, by whom she was the mother of

John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS (12 July 16831 May 1748), known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo- Irish politician. Ea ...

; Daniel, an Army officer, to Sir John's sister Helena Perceval; and Mary to Sir Thomas Knatchbull, 3rd Baronet.Haslewood, Rev. Francis (1876): ''Genealogical Memoranda of the Family of Dering''. London.

References

External links

findagrave.com memorial record

Parliamentary Archives, Parliamentary diary of Sir Edward Dering and related papers
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