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, only daughter of Major William Clive Hussey, c.v.o., and Mrs. Hussey. Barbara Winifred Hussey (born March 3, 1904) married Francis Birley. Following her marriage, she was known as Barbara Winifred Birley. Records indicate she passed away on January 23, 1987, in Somerset, England.

• Father: Major William Clive Hussey, C.V.O., who was an officer in the Royal Engineers and served as a government official.
• Mother: Mary Anne Herbert, the daughter of the Very Rev. Hon. George Herbert.
• Brother: Christopher Hussey (1899–1970), a highly influential architectural historian and long-time editor of Country Life magazine
• Barbara Winifred Hussey and Francis Birley had two children:
• Francis Christopher Birley (born September 19, 1935).
• Averil Birley (born December 26, 1937)
• She married Francis Birley on January 16, 1934. Her husband was part of the Birley family of Lancashire, which included notable figures like 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.