Herbert Dering

Sir Herbert Guy Dering, KCMG, KCIE, MVO (13 November 1867 – 29 May 1933) was a British diplomat.

He entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1892 and served in Berlin, Constantinople, Peking (where he received the China War Medal with the Defence of Legations clasp), Washington, Stockholm, and Rome.

[1] Dering was appointed MVO in 1908, KCMG in 1917, and KCIE in 1919.

He received the third class of Swedish Order of the Polar Star in 1908 and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Roumania in 1922.

Dering married in 1920 Edith Ann Mountjoy Sanders, previously married to James Ross Middleton Smith (died 1918), daughter of James Sanders of South Molton.