Sarah Tuke Grubb

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

Born to businessman William Tuke and his first wife Elizabeth Hoyland, Grubb was about 9 when her father married his second wife, Esther Maud.

The couple travelled extensively in Europe, as Quaker missionaries.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Grubb and her husband started a girls' finishing school in Clonmel, Ireland.

One of their teachers was Susanna Corder who went on to become the Headmistress of Newington Academy for Girls.