[Illustration] The family of Dering descend from Norman de Morinis,
whose ancestor, Vitalis FitzOsbert, lived in the reign of Henry II.
Norman de Morinis married the daughter of Deringus, descended from
Norman Fitz-Dering, Sheriff of this county in King Stephen's reign.
Richard Dering died seised of Surenden, which came from the heiress
of Haute, in 1480. The loyalty of Sir Edward Dering in the Civil
Wars, in Charles I.'s time, deserves to be remembered: see his
character in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, II. B. 14, 19, 20, and the
interesting memoir of him by John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. in "Proceedings
in the County of Kent," printed for the Camden Society 1861.
For a notice of the old seats of this family, in the parish of Lidd,
called Dengemarsh Place and Westbrooke, see Hasted's History of
Kent, iii. 515, and for the family, iii. 228; and Wotton's
Baronetage, ii. 13,
ARMS.--_Argent, a fess azure, in chief three torteauxes_, borne by
"Richard fil' Deringi de Haut," in 19 Hen. IV. as appears by his
seal. The same coat is on the roof of the cloisters of Canterbury
Cathedral. The son of this Sir Richard Dering bore, _Or, a saltier
sable_, the ancient arms of De Morinis, and now generally quartered
with Dering. See Willement's Heraldic Notices of Canterbury
Cathedral, pp. 90, 106.
Present Representative, Sir Edward C. Dering, 8th Baronet, M.P. for
East Kent.