Joshua Pim (1869 to 1942) was an Irish medical doctor who is also remembered as an amateur tennis player. Born in Bray, County Wicklow, he studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians in London, graduated at Dublin in 1891 and became a house surgeon at the city's Jervis Street Hospital. In 1899 he was elected Medical Officer for the Rathdown Workhouse Infirmary at Loughlinstown, a post he combined with general practice for 42 years. He held the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In tennis he won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 1893 and 1894 and the men's doubles in 1890 and 1893, and he died at his home in Killiney in 1942.
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Dr Joshua Pim FRCSI (20 May 1869-15 April 1942) was a medical doctor
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he combined this appointment with general practice for 42 years
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