Sarah Tuke Grubb

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

Sarah Tuke Grubb
Born
Sarah Tuke

20 June 1756
York, England
Died8 December 1790
Cork (city), Ireland
Other namesSarah R Grubb
Sally Robert

Life

Born to businessman William Tuke 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 principles. Her father founded three Quaker schools: Ackworth School, 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, 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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Grubb and her husband started a girl's 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 who went on to become the Headmistress of Newington Academy for Girls. Grubb died unexpectedly when she was 34.[1][2][3][6][7]

Bibliography
  • A Serious Meditation: or, A Christian's Duty Fully Set Forth (1790)
  • Some account of the life and religious labours of Sarah Grubb (1792 ed.). OL 23338641M.
  • Account of the Schools at Ackworth and York, Observations on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from Many of Her Letters (1792).

References and sources
  1. ""Grubb, Sarah Tuke (1756–1790)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. ""Tuke, William."". The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  3. Gil Skidmore (2003). Strength in Weakness: Writings of Eighteenth-century Quaker Women. Rowman Altamira. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-0-7591-0521-8.
  4. S, Gil (29 March 2013). "Stumbling blocks to stepping stones: Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 13 - G for the three Sarah Grubbs". Stumbling blocks to stepping stones.
  5. Mitchell, Jonathan Paul. "Religious Melancholia and the York Retreat 1730-1830" (PDF). The University of Leeds.
  6. "The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society : Friends' Historical Society". Internet Archive. London, Headley Brothers:Philadelphia, U.S.A., "American Friend" Office. 1918. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  7. M. Jacob; C. Secretan (17 December 2013). In Praise of Ordinary People: Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-1-137-38052-4.
  8. Margaret Abruzzo (29 March 2011). Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism. JHU Press. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-1-4214-0127-0.
  9. Wright, Sheila (1990). "Quakerism and its Implications for Quaker Women: the Women Itinerant Ministers of York Meeting, 1780-1840". Studies in Church History. Cambridge University Press (CUP). 27: 403–414. doi:10.1017/s0424208400012201. ISSN 0424-2084.
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