Grace Gethin

Grace Gethin (; 1676 – 1697) was an English essayist. She died young and her parents paid for memorials to her. Life Gethin was born in 1676, probably at Abbotsleigh. She was the last child of Frances Norton, Lady Norton and her husband Sir George Norton. They had already had two children who had died young. Gethin married an Irish aristocrat, Sir Richard Gethin, 2nd Baronet, of Gethinsgrott, County Cork. They had no children. After her death, her widower remarried Sarah Farnham, by whom he had at least one son, the third Sir Richard. He died in 1709, aged 35.