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Heneage Dering

1665 – 1750

English dean of Ripon and Latin poet

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Lived 1665 – 1750 (aged 85). Heneage Dering was an English poet.

Heneage Dering, LL.D (1665–1750) was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 18th century. He became Dean of Ripon and was known also as a Latin poet.

Life He was born in London, the son of the barrister Christopher Dering and his wife Elizabeth Spackman, and godson of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, He went to St Albans Grammar School. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1678, and also studied at Clare College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1680, but left in 1682 without a degree.

Called to the bar in 1690, Dering went to work as a secretary for John Sharp, once chaplain to Finch and now the Archbishop of York, the following year. He was ordained in 1701. from 1710 until his death on 8 April 1750.

Works Dering published two book-length poems in Latin hexameters: Elizabeth (1713–1777) married Charles Elsley. Mary (1721–1798) married John Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumberland.

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English dean of Ripon and Latin poet

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Heneage Dering was born on 17 January 1665.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Heneage Dering

· Wikidata: Q18528209

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