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1815 – 1842Grace Darling (1815-1842)Died 20 October 1842, aged 26Grace Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper on the Farne Islands. She became a national heroine after she and her father rowed out in a storm in 1838 to rescue survivors of the wrecked steamer Forfarshire. She died of tuberculosis.