1. Dr Joshua Pim FRCSI was a medical doctor and Irish amateur tennis player.
18 Facts About Joshua Pim
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Joshua Pim 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.
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Joshua Pim won the Wimbledon men's doubles in 1890 and 1893.
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Joshua Pim's parents were Joshua, a barrister who served in the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, and Susannah Maria, nee Middleton.
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Joshua Pim's father died when the younger Joshua was barely two years old, leaving a widow and five young children.
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Joshua Pim died at Secrora, his home in Killiney, on 15 April 1942 aged 72, and was survived by his wife and four children.
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Joshua Pim was a keen swimmer and golfer, and a member of Killiney Golf Club.
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Joshua Pim studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians in London.
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Joshua Pim graduated at Dublin in 1891 and shortly afterwards obtained appointment as a house surgeon in the city's Jervis Street Hospital.
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Joshua Pim played tennis from the age of eleven and in 1888 became a member of Dublin's Lansdowne Club, then known as the All Ireland Lawn Tennis Club.
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In 1889 Joshua Pim won the men's singles competition in the Yorkshire County Championship, a title he would win five times consecutivley.
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Joshua Pim then took the men's singles title at the prestigious English Northern Championships and immediately afterwards he and Stoker added the Wimbledon doubles title to their Irish success.
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Joshua Pim thus became the first player to hold simultaneously the singles and doubles titles of both of what were then the world's premier tennis tournaments.
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In 1894 Joshua Pim again won the Irish singles and, with Stoker, the Irish doubles titles.
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In 1895 Joshua Pim won the singles and doubles competitions at the Irish championships for the third consecutive year, but afterwards, rather than compete at Wimbledon, he travelled to the United States with Harold Mahony to play against four Americans in an international tournament at Boston.
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Joshua Pim won his matches against William Larned, Fred Hovey and Malcolm Chace but was overcome by Clarence Hobart.
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Joshua Pim lost his matches against Malcolm Whitman and William Larned, but stayed in America to compete in the men's singles at the 1902 US National Championships, where he reached the fourth round, falling victim to Leo Ware.
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Ernest Meers judged that Joshua Pim "seemed to possess more actual genius or natural ability for lawn tennis than anyone I ever met", while Arthur Wallis Myers spoke of his "effortless brilliancy and marvellous versatility".