page_title: Emma Dent
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Emma Dent / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Emma Dent in the Chapel at Sudeley
context_page_description: Emma Dent was an English
  antiquarian and collector who restored and developed Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire.
  Dent corresponded with some of the most famous names and eminent thinkers of the 19th century. She planned the layout of the gardens at Sudeley and oversaw their creation. She was an authority on the locality, publishing a lengthy account and documenting antiquities. She also acquired many fine antiques, and amassed a large collection of autographs, as well as a world-class collection of lace and needlework.
context_section_description: Dent's father, John Brocklehurst, was a silk manufacturer and banker, who served as MP for Macclesfield from 1832–68.  He was succeeded as Macclesfield's Liberal MP by her eldest brother William.  Her younger brother Philip was  created a baronet in 1903.  Her younger sister Marianne was an English traveller and collector of Egyptian antiquities who supported a number of Egyptian excavations in the 1870s–90s.  
  John Brocklehurst withheld his consent to marriages proposed by both Emma and subsequently Marianne; both broke off the engagements.  Although Emma took exception in the latter case, interceding on her sister's behalf, she bore her father no lasting ill will, after his death commissioning a marble bust which she presented to Macclesfield Town Hall along with an "In Memoriam" book.
caption: Memorial to Emma Dent in the Chapel at Sudeley
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