Sunday, 23 March 2014
458 Jonathan Pim
Constituency : Dublin 1865-74
Jonathan took one of the Dublin seats off the Tories.
Perhaps out of necessity Jonathan was a conservative Liberal. He was a staunch Quaker . He was a poplin manufacturer. He was a philanthropist concerned with improving the lot of the peasantry. He set up the Quaker relief programme during the Famine and castigated Russell for the government's misguided policies. He wrote pamphlets on the condition of Ireland throughout his life.
Jonathan was hostile to Reform and so joined the Adullamites. Despite that he went on to present women's suffrage petitions gathered in Ireland in the 1870s. He did vote for disestablishing the Church of Ireland and closed the debate on the first Land Act.
Jonathan was defeated by the Home Rule League in 1874.
He died in 1885 aged 79.
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