Grace Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) is an English Victorian heroine, on the strength of a celebrated maritime rescue in 1838. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 1815 ( MDCCCXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh in Northumberland, and spent her youth in two lighthouses (Longstone – now know as Outer Farne – at Farne Island and Coquet Island) of which her father was the keeper. Bamburgh is a large village on the coast of Northumberland, England. Northumberland is a county in the North East of England. The non-metropolitan county of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west A lighthouse is a Tower, building or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or in older times from a fire and used as an
In the early hours of 7 September 1838, Grace, looking from an upstairs window of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, spotted the ship, SS Forfarshire, which had run aground on big Harcar only a few hundred yards away. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Longstone Lighthouse was built and designed by Joseph Nelson in 1826 and was originally called the outer Farne lighthouse The Farne Islands (also referred to less formally as the Farnes) are a group of islands off the coast of Northumberland, England. This article is about the Forfarshire a steamship which sank off the Farne Islands in 1838 Knowing that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from the shore, Grace and her father took a rowing boat (21 ft, 4 man Northumberland Coble) across to the island and in two trips, the second without Grace Darling, rescued nine survivors (8 men of whom 4 were Forfarshire crew members and 1 woman passenger, Mrs. A lifeboat is a boat designed to save the lives of people in trouble at sea Dawson), bringing them safely back to the lighthouse. The Forfarshire was carrying 31 passengers and 29 crew. Later nine other people were rescued from a lifeboat by a passing vessel to be landed at Hull two days later.
Grace Darling died of tuberculosis in 1842. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common She is buried with her father and mother in a modest grave in St. Aidan’s churchyard, Bamburgh, where a nearby elaborate cenotaph commemorates her life. A plain stone monument to her was erected in St. Cuthbert’s Chapel on Great Farne Island in 1848.
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Legacy
Even in her lifetime, Grace’s achievement was celebrated, and she received a large financial reward in addition to the plaudits of the nation. A number of fictionalized depictions propagated the Grace Darling legend, such as Grace Darling, or the Maid of the Isles by Jerrold Vernon (1839), which gave birth to the legend of “the girl with windswept hair”. Her deed was committed to verse by William Wordsworth in his poem Grace Darling (1843). A lifeboat with her name was presented to Holy Island. Lindisfarne () (variant spelling Lindesfarne is a Tidal island off the north-east coast of England. One of the series of Victorian paintings by William Bell Scott at Wallington Hall in Northumberland depicts her rescue. William Bell Scott ( September 12, 1811 &ndash November 22, 1890) British Poet and Artist, son of Robert Scott Wallington ( is a Country house and Gardens located 188km (11
At Bamburgh there is a museum dedicated to her achievements and the seafaring life of the region.
It was suggested by Richard Armstrong in his 1965 biography Grace Darling: Maid and Myth that she may have suffered from a cleft lip. Cleft lip (cheiloschisis and cleft palate (palatoschisis which can also occur together as cleft lip and palate are variations of a type of clefting Congenital He is the only biographer to put forward this theory, which has been strongly disputed by other experts.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Mersey class lifeboat at Seahouses bears the name Grace Darling. The founder Sir William Hillary Sir William Hillary came to live on the Isle of Man in 1808 Seahouses is a large Village on the North Northumberland coast in England.
Singer/songwriter Dave Cousins of the Strawbs wrote Grace Darling (on Ghosts) in tribute and as a love song. Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson January 7 1945, in Hounslow, Middlesex) has been the leader, Singer and most active Strawbs are a rock band founded in 1964 in England. Originally known as the Strawberry Hill Boys, they started out as a bluegrass Ghosts is a studio Album by English band Strawbs. Track listing Side one "Ghosts"
See also
- Grace Bussell, a 16 year old Australian girl who rescued 50 people from the SS Georgette when it foundered off the West Australian coast in 1876. Grace Vernon Bussell (1860 – 1935 later Grace Drake-Brockman, was the 16-year-old Heroine of the SS Georgette disaster in Western Australia SS Georgette was a steamship built in 1872. She played a minor part in the story of the Catalpa rescue in April 1876, but is She is regarded as Australia’s national heroine. At the time of the rescue, Bussell was referred to as the “Grace Darling of the West” by journalists.
- Ann Harvey, a Newfoundland 17-year old who in 1828, with her father, brother & dog, rescued 163 shipwrecked people. Ann Harvey (1811 &ndash 1860 was a fisher and rescuer born near the small fishing community of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, Canada.
- Roberta Boyd, a New Brunswick girl who was hailed as the “Grace Darling of the St. Croix” after a rescue in 1882. Roberta Grace "Bertha" Boyd was a Canadian Heroine known as the " Grace Darling of the St New Brunswick ( French: Nouveau-Brunswick /nuvobʁɔnzwik/ is one of Canada 's three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally
Further reading
- Richard Armstrong - Grace Darling: Maid and Myth (1965)
- Hugh Cunningham - Grace Darling - Victorian Heroine Hambledon: Continuum (2007)ISBN 9781852855482
- Thomasin Darling - Grace Darling, her True Story: from Unpublished Papers in Possession of her Family (1880)
- Thomasin Darling - The Journal of William Darling, Grace Darling's Father (1887)
- Eva Hope - Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands, Her Life and its Lessons Walter Scott (1880)
- Jessica Mitford - Grace Had an English Heart. The Hon Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford ( September 11, 1917 – July 22, 1996) British-born writer long resident in the United States was one The Story of Grace Darling, Heroine and Victorian Superstar (1998) ISBN 052524672X
- Constance Smedley - Grace Darling and Her Times Hurst and Blackett (1932)
- H. C. G. Matthew, “Darling, Grace Horsley (1815–1842)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 24 Feb 2007
External links
- Grace Darling Museum from the RNLI
- Grace Darling page on Britain un-Limited
- Description of the sinking of the Forfarshire and Grace Darling’s part in the rescue, from The Tragedy of the Seas, 1841, from Google Book Search
- “Grace Darling: Victorian heroine” BBC
- Grace Darling genealogy
- Grace Darling by William Wordsworth
- Memorial Page for Grace Darling on FindaGrave
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