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Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst
Born
Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst
NationalityBritish
OccupationArt director
OrganizationsPace Gallery
ChildrenLucien Ward (2001)
Violet Ward (2004)[1]
Parent(s)Mark Dent-Brocklehurst (father)
Elizabeth Chipps (mother)[1]

Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst (born c. 1971)[2] is the director of London’s Pace Gallery is also co-owner of Sudeley Castle, where she has curated art and sculpture exhibitions.[3][4]

Background

Dent-Brocklehurst is the daughter of Mark Dent-Brocklehurst and Elizabeth née Chipps. Her father died in 1972, and her mother married Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, in 1979.

Through her paternal grandfather, Major John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, she is a descendant of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, which makes her a fourth cousin of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood. Through her paternal grandfather, whose sister Marjorie Brocklehurst married Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington, she is also a second cousin of Michael Hicks Beach, 3rd Earl St Aldwyn.

She married Duncan Ward in July 2002 at Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. Her children are Lucien Ward (2002) and Violet Ward (2004).[1] She separated from Duncan Ward in July 2012.[2]

Art career

Dent-Brocklehurst began her career at Sotheby's before working for Gagosian for 10 years, first in New York City and then as director of his[clarification needed] first London gallery. In 2008 she joined Abramovich's and Zhukova's The Garage in Moscow as international director and programme co-ordinator where she continued in an advisory role following her return to London in 2010 to set up the London Pace Gallery.[5]

Ancestry

Family of Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst
16. Henry Brocklehurst
8. Captain Henry Dent Brocklehurst
17. Anne Fielden
4. Major John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst
18. Hon. Egremont William Lascelles
9. Marion Lascelles
19. Jessie Elizabeth Malcolm
2. Mark Dent-Brocklehurst
20. Alfred Morrison
10. Lt.-Col. James Archibald Morrison
21. Mabel Chermside
5. Mary Morrison
22. Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
11. Hon. Mary Hill-Trevor
23. Hon. Mary Catherine Curzon
1. Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst
6. Dr. Henry Davis Chipps
3. Mary Elizabeth Chipps

References

  1. ^ a b c Person Page 25406, The Peerage.com
  2. ^ a b Nicholl, Katie (22 July 2012). "Anguish for castle heiress Mollie as marriage crumbles". Daily Mail. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  3. ^ Victoria Woodcock (5 October 2012) Mollie Dent - Brocklehurst talks personal style. The Financial Times.
  4. ^ The Tatler List Tatler list - Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst The Tatler list.
  5. ^ Sharp, Rob (8 December 2010). "Billionaire's friend bringing mega-galleries to Britain". The Independent. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
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