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Sarah Tuke Grubb (20 June 1756 – 8 December 1790), Quaker minister, writer and founder of a girls' school in Ireland.


Life

Born to businessman
William Tuke William Tuke (24 March 1732 – 6 December 1822), an English tradesman, philanthropist and Quaker, earned fame for promoting more humane custody and care for people with mental disorders, using what he called gentler methods that came to be k ...
and his first wife Elizabeth Hoyland, Grubb was about 9 when her father married his second wife, Esther Maud. They were strong believers in
Quaker Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
principles. Her father founded three Quaker schools:
Ackworth School Ackworth School is an independent day and boarding school located in the village of High Ackworth, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. The school (or more accurately its Head) is a member ...
, Bootham School, and Trinity Lane Quaker Girls' School during his life. Grubb started preaching in Quaker congregations when she was 22. She married Robert Grubb of
Clonmel Clonmel () is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian army which sacked the towns of Dro ...
, Ireland in 1782 and while initially they lived locally to where she grew up, they returned to live in Ireland in 1787. The couple travelled extensively in Europe, as Quaker missionaries. They visiting several Quaker communities in their travels. Grubb and her husband started a girls' finishing school in Clonmel, Ireland. The school was called the Suir Island School and later known as the Clonmel School. One of their teachers was
Susanna Corder Susanna Corder (9 November 1787 – 28 February 1864) was an educationist and Quaker biographer. Early years Corder was born in 1787 in Kelvedon in Essex, the daughter of Quakers Ruth ''née'' Marriage and John Corder, a farmer. A sickly child, ...
who went on to become the Headmistress of
Newington Academy for Girls The Newington Academy for Girls, also known as Newington College for Girls, was a List of Friends schools, Quaker school established in 1824 in Stoke Newington, then north of London. In a time when Female education, girls' educational opportuniti ...
. Grubb died unexpectedly when she was 34.


Bibliography

* A Serious Meditation: or, A Christian's Duty Fully Set Forth (1790) * * Account of the Schools at Ackworth and York, Observations on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from Many of Her Letters (1792).


References and sources

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