Ann Sumner Author & Editor

Ann Sumner is Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Professor of Fine Art and Curatorial Practice at the University of Birmingham, a post she took up in 2007 after seven years as Head of Fine Art at the National Museum of Wales. Until his retirement in 2005, Kenneth McConkey was Dean of Arts at the University of Northumbria. He is a specialist in British, Irish and French painting at the turn of the twentieth century and an expert on the life and works of Sir John Lavery. Robert Holland is a lawn tennis historian and Trustee of the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society in Birmingham. He has been an enthusiastic tennis player since his youth and in the 1960s was a junior member of the Edgbaston Lawn Tennis Club and the Edgbaston Priory Club. Susan Elks is a collector of tennis memorabilia and author of From Whalebone to Lycra: A Fashion Journey through Midlands Lawn Tennis History (2004), which traces the development of lawn tennis from its Victorian roots in Birmingham to the present day.