Dr Joshua Pim FRCSI (20 May 1869 – 15 April 1942) was a medical doctor and Irish amateur tennis player. He won the Wimbledon men’s singles title two years in a row, in 1893 and 1894, and was ranked British number one in both those years.
Pim studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians in London. He graduated at Dublin in 1891 and shortly afterwards obtained appointment as a house surgeon in the city’s Jervis Street Hospital. In 1899 he was elected Medical Officer for the Rathdown Workhouse Infirmary (subsequently redesignated as St Columcille’s Hospital) at Loughlinstown, and he combined this appointment with general practice for 42 years.
Joshua Pim has won 2 Grand Slams.
