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DERING, SIR EDWARD, BART. , only son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart. (adm. 1743/4, qv), and his first wife; b. 16 Feb 1757; adm. 10 Feb 1767; left Christmas 1774; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 1798; succ. father as 7th baronet 8 Dec 1798; m. 18 Apr 1782 Anne, fourth dau. of William Hale, King’s Walden, Herts. ; d. 30 Jun 1811.

DERING, THOMAS, younger son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart. (adm. 1743/4, qv), and his second wife; bapt. 7 Jan 1747/8; adm. ; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1761; left Christmas 1764; “the least boy in the school” when Jeremy Bentham (qv) was the least but one; “the bigger lads took a pleasure in pitting us one against another” (Bentham, Works, x, 30); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Mar 1765. [note Thomas Dering, late Lieut. , Royal Marines, Tortola, West Indies, will proved PCC 17 Mar 1806]

Derrington-Turner, Cyril Randal; b. May 31, 1896; adm. Jan. 19, 1911 (H); left Easter 1913; served in Great War I; Flight Officer R. N. A. S.

Derry, Douglas Charles Lawford, son of Arthur Douglas Derry, of Hampstead, by Winifred Lawford, of Croydon; b. Aug. 15, 1893; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left Easter 1911; A. R. l. B.A. 1919; St. Thomas's Hospital and London Univ.; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1928; M.B., B.Sc. 1930; pathologist to the Medical and Surgical Units, St. Thomas's Hospital; m. Aug. 14. 1926, Margaret Penelope, daughter of James Gall Gerrard, of South Nutfield, Surrey.

Derry, Everard Gover, brother of Douglas Charles Lawford Derry (q.v.); b. March 28, 1898; adm. April 26, 1912 (R); left July 1913; AC. A. 1925, but abandoned practice and became pastor of an undenominational church; m. June 2, 1926, Ruth Mary, daughter of Cyril M. Swannell, of Felixstowe, Suffolk; d. 21 Aug. 1984.

Derry, Oscar Arthur, brother of Douglas Charles Lawford Derry (q.v.); b. Oct. 23, 1894; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left July 1912; served with the 5th Batt. of the Dorset Regt. 1914-6; 2nd Lieut. Nov. 27, 1914; Lieut. Aug. 23, 1915; wounded and relinquished his commission on account of ill health Nov. 3, 1916; a tobacco planter in S. Rhodesia; returned to England and became a company director; m. 1st July 5, 1924, Alice Elaine, daughter of Cuthbert Vaux, of Sanderstead, Surrey; 2nd Oct. 11, 1931, Mary Beryl, daughter of William Charles Loosemore, of Purley, Surrey; d. 1973.

DES CARRIERES, ABRAHAM; b. ; adm. 3 Oct 1785. [But not in lists of 29 Oct 1785 and 20 Feb 1786] [Presumably Abraham Des Carrieres, son of David Des Carrieres, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 24 Apr 1801, aged 24]

Des Carrieres, Jean Thomas Herissant; b. Paris 1742 ; emigrated to London by the late 1760s, where he became a bookseller and gave French lessons ; taking boarders at 16 Cowley Street 1791 ; “Messrs. Des Carrieres and Ouiseau, Masters of Languages, continue to receive in their house, No.16, Cowley Street, Westminster, young Gentlemen who attend Westminster School” (advert in J. Ouiseau, Practical Geography, 1794, stating that “number of Boarders limited to twelve”) ; author of French-English grammars and of translations from the French ; d. at Croydon, Surrey 13 Jun 1820.

DESAGULIERS, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1728/9; left 1733.

DESAGULIERS, JOHN THEOPHILUS, son of Rev. John Theophilus Desaguliers DCL FRS, Channel Row, Westminster, lecturer on natural philosophy, and Joanna, dau. of William Pudsey [Tuckey ?], Kidlington, Oxfordshire; b. 18 Aug 1718; adm. Mar 1727/8; Min. Can. 1733, 1734; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1735; migr. to Hart Hall, Oxford; BA 1739; ordained; Vicar of Cratfield and Laxfield, Suffolk, from 1743; d. unm. 28 Nov 1752.