Geoffrey Mark Dent-Brocklehurst (25 April 1932 – 9 September 1972) was a British stockbroker and the heir to Sudeley Castle. He was the son of Major John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst and his wife, Mary (''née'' Morrison). Via his paternal grandmother, Marion Lascelles, he is a descendant of

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. Thus he was a third cousin of

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, (7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011), styled The Honourable George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was a British classical music administrator and author. He ...

. Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, whose mother was Marjorie Brocklehurst, was his first cousin. Dent-Brocklehurst died suddenly from a

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in 1972, aged 40.Sudeley Castle History
The castle passed to his wife, Mary Elizabeth (''née'' Chipps), and their two children, Henry and

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. His wife remarried

Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe Henry Edward Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe (31 March 1924 – 4 December 2013), was a British peer. He was the son of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, and Sonia Rosemary Keppel, and the uncle and godfather of Queen Camilla. Education and career ...

, in 1979.

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