Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet (18 April 1650 – 15 October 1689) was an English Member of Parliament and

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. He was the eldest son of

Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet (8 or 12 November 1625 – 24 June 1684) of Surrenden Dering, Pluckley, Kent was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1674. Life Dering was the eldest surviving ...

of Surrenden Dering House in

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and his wife

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, a composer and niece of Dr.

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. He succeeded his father in 1684. Like his father and grandfather before him, Dering served as an MP for the County of

; he sat in the last three

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of Charles II, between 1678/9 and 1681 (the Oxford Parliament). His father was still living, and MP for

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at the time, so the son was returned as Edward Dering Esq. Defeated in the 1689 election as the parliamentary candidate for Hythe, he instead raised a regiment of foot (later to become the

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) and took it to Ireland to support King William III. There he fell ill and died at the age of 39. His body was brought home and buried in Pluckley. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet of

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, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Savile of

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, both in

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; she was coheiress to her brother Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 3rd Baronet, who had died as a child. The

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Cholmeley was often used in the Dering family from this point, the first being their son Sir Cholmeley Dering, 4th Baronet. Lady Dering died on 20 October 1704 and was also buried at Pluckley.Haslewood, Rev. Francis. (1876). ''Genealogical Memoranda of the Family of Dering''. London.

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