Sir Esler Maberley Dening GCMG OBE (21 April 1897 – 29 January 1977) was a British diplomat.

While serving with 31 Battalion AIF he was wounded in the Attack at Fromelles on 19 July 1916 and evacuated to England with shell shock.

[4] In an unusual move Dening became a whistle blower in a dispatch to the Foreign Office, London; stating that Mountbatten constantly ignored the advice of those he commanded and described him as a ‘obsequious sycophant desperate that British-Indian operations in southern French Indo-China would not tarnish his professional reputation or SEAC legacy’(Pg.56).

[6] He was the British Political Representative in Tokyo in 1950-1951 and when full diplomatic relations were re-established,[7] his role was an essential element of the transition.

[11] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Maberley Esler Dening, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 19 publications in 2 languages and 800+ library holdings .