Henry Edward Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe (31 March 1924 – 4 December 2013), was a British

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. He was the son of

Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, (26 January 1899 – 28 October 1962) was a member of the British aristocracy. He became Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe, in 1947. He was the maternal grandf ...

, and Sonia Rosemary Keppel, and the uncle and godfather of

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Education and career

Educated at

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, he served in the

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during the

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. After the War he became chairman of

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, the family construction firm. He was the

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-based

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for

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from 1961 to 1968.

Family

He was married three times without issue: * Ghislaine (née Dresselhuys), Countess of Caledon (ex-wife of the 6th Earl of Caledon), was married to Lord Ashcombe from 1955 to 1968. In 1972, she married Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley. * Virginia Carington (daughter of

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton (6 June 1919 – 9July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Secretary of State for Defence, Defence Secretary from ...

) was married to Lord Ashcombe from 1973 to 1979. She was a special aide to

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and the Duchess of Cornwall. * Mary Elizabeth Chipps, the mother of two children from her previous marriage to the late

Mark Dent-Brocklehurst 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 grandmothe ...

, married Lord Ashcombe in 1979 at

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, which Lady Ashcombe partially owns with her children. The medieval fortress, situated in the

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, is the home of Lady Ashcombe. Lord Ashcombe's first cousin once removed, Mark Cubitt, born in 1964, is now the 5th

Baron Ashcombe Baron Ashcombe, of Dorking in the County of Surrey and of Bodiam Castle in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for the Conservative politician George Cubitt of Denbies House, Dorking, Su ...

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The Peerage: Henry Edward Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe
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