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.

This article is about the Irish MP. For his grandson, Attorney-General for Ireland, see Jonathan Pim (1858–1949).

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 4 children. Pim's daughter Mary was the wife famed lighthouse engineer John Richardson Wigham. 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.

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
  1. Harrison (1987), App. D(iii).

Sources
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Vance and
Sir Edward Grogan, Bt		 Member of Parliament for Dublin City
1865–1874
With: Benjamin Guinness 1865–1868
Arthur Guinness 1868–1870
Dominic Corrigan 1870–1874		 Succeeded by
Maurice Brooks and
Arthur Guinness
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