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DARLING, GRACE HORSLEY (1815-1842)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 834 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DARLING, GRACE HORSLEY (1815-1842) , British heroine, was born at Bamborough, Northumberland, on the 24th of November 1815. Her father, William
Darling
 , was the keeper of the Longstone (Farne Islands) lighthouse. On the morning of the 7th of September 1838, the "
Forfarshire
 ," bound from Hull to Dundee, with sixty-three persons on board, struck on the Farne Islands,
forty
 -three being drowned. The wreck was observed from the lighthouse, and
Darling
  and his daughter determined to try and reach the survivors. They recognized that though they might be able to get to the wreck, they would be unable to return without the assistance of the shipwrecked
crew
 , but they took this
risk
  without hesitation. By a combination of daring, strength and skill, the father and daughter reached the wreck in their coble and brought back four men and a woman to the lighthouse. Darling and two of the rescued men then returned to the wreck and brought off the four remaining survivors. This gallant exploit made Grace Darling and her father famous. The Humane Society at once voted them its gold
medal
 , the
treasury
  made a grant, and a public subscription was organized. Grace Darling, who had always been delicate, died of
consumption
  on the 20th of October 1842.
See Grace Darling, her true story (London, 1880).


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