Grace Lowrey Stanley Country Life Magazine Portrait October 22 1927

The Hon. Grace Lowrey Stanley Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, October 22 1927. LXII No. 1605

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of the Hon. Grace Stanley, younger daughter of Lord and Lady Ashfield, whose engagement to Mr E. J. Barford, M.C., had just been announced.

Grace Lowrey Stanley was the daughter of Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, a prominent businessman and politician associated with the development of the London Underground, and his wife, Grace Lowrey.

• The Groom: Edward James Barford, M.C., was a decorated military officer and later became chairman of the engineering firm Aveling-Barford.
• Marriage: The couple married on October 30, 1928, at Claridge’s Hotel in London.
• Children: They had four children:
  • Edwina P. L. Barford (born 1931)
  • Clive Julian Stanley Barford (1933–2007)
  • Caroline Juliette Helen Barford (born 1933), twin of Clive
  • Adam Barford
• Later Life: The marriage ended in divorce in 1940. Grace later married Captain Herbert John Buckmaster the same year.
• Career: Edward Barford became a leading industrialist through his work with Aveling-Barford, a firm known for manufacturing road rollers and construction equipment.

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.