Jonathan Pim (1806–1885)

Jonathan Pim (1806 – 6 July 1885) was an Irish Liberal Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin City at the 1865 general election, and held the seat until the 1874 general election. He was president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland between 1875 and 1877. A Quaker he served as secretary for the Quaker Relief fund during the famine. He is buried in the Friends Burial Ground, Dublin in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.

Family[]

Pim's father was Thomas Anthony Pim, one of the Pim Brothers of Dublin, born in 1771.^[1]

Pim married Susanna Todhunter.^[1] They had a total of 10 children, of whom 6 would live to adulthood. Pim's daughter Mary was the wife of pioneering lighthouse engineer John Richardson Wigham.^{[citation needed]}

Pim's grandson Jonathan Ernest Pim was a lawyer who would hold a number of government positions including Attorney-General for Ireland and briefly Lord Justice of Ireland.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography[]

• The Condition and Prospects of Ireland and the Evils arising from the Present Eistribution of Landed Property with Suggestions for a Remedy. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. 1948.
• "An address delivered at the opening of the thirtieth session of the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, being a review of the economic and social progress of Ireland since the famine". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Ireland and the imperial Parliament.
• Is it right for a Christian to marry two sisters?. 1863.
• On the connection between the condition of tenant farmers and the laws respecting the ownership and transfer of land in Ireland.
• The Irish university question.
• The land question in Ireland, suggestions for its solution by the appllication of mercantile principles to dealings with land.

References[]

Sources[]

• Harrison, Richard S. (1987). Dublin Quakers in Business 1800 — 1850 (M.Litt. thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/79673.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links[]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Jonathan Pim

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