Pim family

The Pim family is an Anglo-Irish Quaker family, long associated with the town of Mountmellick in County Laois and later prominent in the commercial, civic and professional life of Dublin. From the eighteenth century onward, members of the family were notable as textile manufacturers and merchants, railway pioneers, politicians, lawyers, naval officers and sportsmen.

Origins The Pims were among the first Quakers in Ireland. According to tradition, John Pim (1641–1718) was converted to Quakerism by William Edmundson — held to be the first Quaker in Ireland — in County Cavan, and in 1659, then aged about eighteen, was one of a small group who settled with Edmundson in the vicinity of Mountmellick in Queen's County (now County Laois).