Dering was the eldest surviving son and heir of
Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet of
Pluckley,
Kent 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. 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
Middle Temple. 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
Member of Parliament for
Kent in the
Convention Parliament. He was appointed one of the six commissioners for executing the Irish
Act of Settlement 1662 in July 1662 and was returned to the
Irish House of Commons as
Member of Parliament for
Lisburn. In 1670 he was elected MP for
East Retford in a by-election to the
Cavalier Parliament. He was elected MP for
Hythe in the two elections of 1679 and in 1681. He was also appointed a commissioner of the
Treasury in 1679. Dering died in London aged 58 and was buried at Pluckley. ==Family==