Edward Heneage Dering

Edward Heneage Dering (1826-1892)[1] was a novelist of the Victorian era, although he is largely remembered today as a member of 'The Quartet'[2] at Baddesley Clinton, with marriages to two artistic women.[3]

Biography

Dering was the youngest son of John Dering, rector of Pluckley, Kent, and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. In 1859 he married fellow author Lady Georgiana Chatterton. Dering converted to Catholicism in 1865[4] and Georgiana followed in 1875.[5] From 1869, the couple lived at Baddesley Clinton with Georgiana's niece Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen and her husband Marmion Edward Ferrers. While living there, they paid for much-needed improvements to the house and also paid off the mortgages (worth £2.5 million in today's money) taken out on the estate.[6] Lady Georgiana died at Baddesley Clinton in 1876 and two years later Edward Dering published Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton[7]

Edward continued to live at Baddesley Clinton, chaperoned by a Catholic priest after the death of Rebecca's husband in 1884;[3] in 1885 the couple were married. Edward was responsible for more improvements to the house, including a new service wing in 1890.[2] Edward Dering died at Baddesley Clinton in 1892 and much of his personal library, along with those of his wives, remains in the house today.[8] The collections there also include several portraits of Dering painted by Rebecca Dering, including 'The philosopher's morning walk',[9] which shows him in his favoured old-fashioned clothes in front of the moat at Baddesley Clinton.

Works

Dering's best-selling works include:

  • A Great Sensation (1862)[10]
  • Grey's Court (1865)
  • Florence Danby (1868)[11]
  • The Chieftains's Daughter (1870)[12]
  • Sherborne (1875)[13]
  • Freville Chase (1880)
  • Esoteric Buddhism (1887)
  • The Philosopher of Rovereto (1888)
  • The Lady of Raven's Combe (1891)
  • The Ban of Mablethorpe (1894).

Dering also published English translations of works by the Jesuit philosopher Matteo Liberatore.

References
  1. Dering, Edward Heneage in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (2010)
  2. "the Quartet". National Trust. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  3. "Rebecca Dering". National Trust. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  4. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton (1878), p.152
  5. Chatterton, Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles, Lady (1806–1876). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2019-11-22.
  6. "the Quartet". National Trust. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  7. Edward Heneage Dering (1878). Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton: with Some Passages from Her Diary. Hurst and Blackett – via Google Books.
  8. National Trust Collections
  9. "Edward Heneage Dering (1826-1892), ' The Philosopher's Morning Walk' by Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen". National Trust. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  10. Edward Heneage Dering (1862). A great sensation – via Google Books.
  11. Edward Heneage Dering (1868). Florence Danby. Dublin and Derby: Thomas Richardson and Son – via Google Books.
  12. Edward Heneage Dering (1870). The Chieftain's Daughter. Richardson – via Google Books.
  13. Edward Heneage Dering (1875). Sherborne, Or, The House at the Four Ways. Smith, Elder – via Google Books.
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