{"id":56591,"date":"2025-08-10T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56591\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:05:17","slug":"statue-plan-to-honour-19th-century-computing-pioneer-in-hinckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56591\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue plan to honour 19th Century computing pioneer in Hinckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Rooney added: &#8220;Ada foresaw so much of the technology that came after her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was very young when she died, just 36.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She lived longer at Kirkby Mallory than anywhere else during her short life, so it is only fitting that this exceptional lady, who is celebrated around the world, is finally honoured in her childhood hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The statue is being cast in Basingstoke as we speak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mould has already been used to cast a statue of her, commissioned by property developers, for a building in Westminster in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very lucky the sculptor has agreed to allow us to use the mould which keeps the costs down,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Rooney said the project was entirely privately funded.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the community interest company had raised \u00a350,000 so far and was hoping to raise a further \u00a350,000 through crowdfunding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council is expected to make a decision on the planning application in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Rooney added: &#8220;Ada foresaw so much of the technology that came after her life. &#8220;She was very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-56591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}