Grace Darling (24 Nov 1815 – 20 Oct 1842)

Grace Darling was a Victorian heroine when, in 1838, she with her lighthouse keeper father, daringly rescued sailors caught in a storm off the shores of Northeastern England. The youthful 22-year old with her “windswept hair” caught the popular imagination. Her deed was committed to verse by William Wordsworth in his poem “Grace Darling.”