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Sir Cholmeley Dering, 4th Baronet

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at a by-election on 7 December 1708. In the following year, he was arrested at a tavern near the Royal Exchange together with three political colleagues who would later become members of the hard-drinking Tory club, the Band of Brothers. In 1710, he followed the party line, voting against the
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on 7 May 1711 when he became involved in an argument with Colonel Richard Thornhill. They came to blows and in the ensuing struggle Dering kicked out several of Thornhill's teeth. Their companions broke up the fight, but Thornhill afterwards sent Dering a note challenging him to a duel at
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Dering's wife, Mary, died in 1707 aged only 20, perhaps as a result of the birth of their younger son Cholmeley. Dering and his wife had at least two children:
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The duel was with pistols, both being fired but only Dering was hit and he died soon after. Thornhill was tried for
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on 20 August the same year, by two men who allegedly invoked Dering's name as they killed him.
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in 1689. On 17 July 1704 he married Mary Fisher, the only child of Edward Fisher, merchant of
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83:. Cholmeley Dering was ten years old when he succeeded his father as 80: 64: 88: 153: 76: 115:, he was defeated at Kent. However, he was returned as MP for 91:, and of his wife Ellen Norton, daughter of Richard Norton 68: 48: 33: 99:Dering was elected at the top of the poll as Tory 622: 278:Celebrated Trials connected with the Aristocracy 384:Genealogical Memoranda of the Family of Dering 234:, vol. 2, Exeter: William Pollard and Co 136:Dering was dining with others at an inn near 32:(23 June 1679 – 9 May 1711) was an English 290:Shoemaker, Robert B. (22 September 2002). 289: 283: 231:Complete Baronetage volume 2 (1625–1649) 20: 227: 221: 156:but convicted of the lesser offence of 623: 120:impeachment of Dr Sacheverell. At the 47:from 1705 to 1711. He was killed in a 128:and Kent, and chose to sit for Kent. 228:Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1902), 71:by Elizabeth Cholmeley, daughter of 131: 13: 73:Sir William Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet 14: 702: 382:Haslewood, Rev. Francis. 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Tory
politician
English
British House of Commons
duel
Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet
Pluckley
Kent
Sir William Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet
Whitby
Yorkshire
baronet
Mitcham
MP
Kent
1705 English general election
1708 British general election
Saltash
1710 British general election
Saltash
Hampton Court
Tothill Fields
Westminster
murder
manslaughter
Jonathan Swift
Richard Steele
The Spectator
Turnham Green

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