{"id":2101,"date":"2022-05-17T10:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:47:24","slug":"happy-birthday-lady-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/17\/happy-birthday-lady-barber\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Lady Barber!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/05\/Lady-Barber-Shannon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/05\/Lady-Barber-Shannon.png 307w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/05\/Lady-Barber-Shannon-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 85vw, 307px\" \/><figcaption><em>Portrait by James Jebusa Shannon [1912]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The founder of the Barber Institute, Lady Barber, was born on 16 May 1869 as Martha Constance Hattie Onions. After an education at Cheltenham Ladies College, she married the Birmingham solicitor and property developer, William Henry Barber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about her, and the University art gallery and concert hall that bear her name, by visiting the Barber\u2019s current display, <em>The Founding of the Barber Institute: An Arts Centre Ahead of its Time<\/em>. The story of how she turned her vision \u2013 to provide \u201can Institute to be used by the University in perpetuity for the study and encouragement of Art and Music\u201d into a reality \u2013 is explored with the help of rarely-seen archive material, including photographs, architectural blueprints, correspondence and a copy of the Trust Deed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before his death, Sir Henry and Lady Barber had discussed establishing a permanent contribution to Henry\u2019s home city, and Lady Barber ensured that this idea came to fruition, founding the Barber Institute in 1932. She died, childless, four months later, leaving the entire Barber fortune to the Trustees of the Institute to enable the construction of a new building, the development of the art collection and the funding of public concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This free exhibition is open until 12 June<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Barber Institute, Lady Barber, was born on 16 May 1869 as Martha Constance Hattie Onions. After an education at Cheltenham Ladies College, she married the Birmingham solicitor and property developer, William Henry Barber. Learn more about her, and the University art gallery and concert hall that bear her name, by visiting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/17\/happy-birthday-lady-barber\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday, Lady Barber!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}