Miss Barbara Hussey Country Life Magazine Portrait Augst 20 1927

Miss Barbara Hussey Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, August 20 1927. LXII No. 1596

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Barbara Hussey, the only daughter of Major William Clive Hussey, C.V.O., and Mrs Hussey.

Barbara Winifred Hussey (1904–1987) later married Francis Birley and became known as Barbara Winifred Birley.

• Father: Major William Clive Hussey, C.V.O., an officer in the Royal Engineers and a government official.
• Mother: Mary Anne Herbert, daughter of the Very Rev. Hon. George Herbert.
• Brother: Christopher Hussey (1899–1970), an influential architectural historian and long-time editor of Country Life magazine.
• Marriage: She married Francis Birley on January 16, 1934.
• Children: The couple had two children:
  • Francis Christopher Birley (born 1935)
  • Averil Birley (born 1937)
• Family Connections: The Birley family of Lancashire included notable figures such as the portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.