Deering, Mary 09/03/1629 - 02/07/1704

Mary Harvey, Lady Dering (Dering) was the daughter of the wealthy merchant Daniel Harvey. Her was educated at "The Ladies University of the Female Arts", where she studied composition et al.

Three of her pieces were published in the collected edition of Henry Lawes/The Second Book OF/Ayres and Dialogues, for One, Two, And Three Voyces/(London, 1653).
These were the first known published pieces of a female composer in England.

In1648 she married Sir Edmund Dering. She died in London in 1704 after which she had brought 17 children to the world and had outlived both her husband and most of her children.