Biography
Grace was born to the well-known and prosperous Bussell family. At age 7, she discovered Wallcliffe cave.
Lauded by the press at the time of the rescue, she became known as the 'Grace Darling of the West', after an Englishwoman who had rescued people in similar circumstances. She was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Humane Society.
She married Surveyor General Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman in 1882 and was the mother of Edmund Drake-Brockman and Deborah Vernon Hackett. She died aged 75 in Guildford.
Bussell is commemorated by having had several places named in her honour. One of these is the coastal hamlet of Gracetown, north of Margaret River. Another is the wheatbelt town of Lake Grace. Additionally, a street in the Canberra suburb Cook is named after her.
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