George Charles Deering

George Charles Deering, originally Georg Karl Dering (c.1695–1749) was a German botanist and medical practitioner, resident in Great Britain for the last 30 years of his life.

Life Deering was born in the Electorate of Saxony, educated at Hamburg and Leyden, and came to London in 1713 as secretary to Baron Schach, envoy to Queen Anne from Peter the Great. He remained in England as a tutor till November 1718, when he married and returned to the continent, where he took a degree at Reims, 13 December 1718. He went on to Paris, studying anatomy and botany under Bernard de Jussieu. In August 1719 he came back to England.

For a time Deering worked as a medical practitioner in London. He joined the botanical society set up by Johann Jakob Dillenius and John Martyn, which existed from 1721 to 1726.

Works Two years after moving to Nottingham, Deering published a list of local plants. With some of the cryptogams he had been helped by Dillenius. They collaborated in other ways, acknowledged by Dillenius in the preface to his major work Historia Muscorum.

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