DARLING, CHARLES JOHN, IST BARON
English judge, was born on Dec. 6, 1849. At the age of 24 he was called to the bar; in 1885 he became a Q.C., and soon afterwards entered Parliament as Conservative member for Deptford. He sat in the House of Commons from 1888 until 1897 when he was knighted. His appointment in 1897 to a judgeship was not received with universal approval; but he later justified the choice by prov ing himself to be a man of acute understanding, with an unusual insight into human nature. In 1923 he retired, and in 1924 was granted a peerage. Among his published works are Scintillae Juris (1877) ; Meditations in the Tea Room (1879) ; Seria Ludo (1903) ; On the Oxford Circuit (1909) ; Musings on Murder, etc. (1925). A Pensioner's Garden and other Verses (1926).
Evelyn Graham, Lord Darling and his Famous Trials (1929). DARLING, GRACE HORSLEY
British heroine, was born at Bamborough, Northumberland, on Nov. 24, 1815. Her father, William Darling, was the keeper of the Long stone (Farne Islands) lighthouse. On the morning of Sept. 7, 1838, the "Forfarshire," bound from Hull to Dundee, with 63 persons on board, struck on the Farne Islands, 43 being drowned. The wreck was observed from the lighthouse, and Darling and his daughter determined to try to reach the survivors. By a combi nation of daring, strength and skill, the father and daughter reached the wreck in their coble and brought back four men and a woman to the lighthouse. Darling and two of the rescued men then returned to the wreck and brought off the four remaining survivors. Grace Darling and her father received the gold medal of the Humane Society, the Treasury made a grant, and a public subscription was organized. Grace Darling died of consumption on OCt. 20, 1842.
See Grace Darling, her true story (188o) ; Grace Darling, The Maid of the Isles 0839) ; E. Hope, Grace Darling (1875) ; T. Arthur, Grace Darling (1885).
a river of Australia (q.v.).
