Nonetheless, he retained a lifelong interest in efforts to alleviate the poverty-stricken condition of the Irish.

Under his guidance, the family firm, Pim Brothers, opened a pioneering department store in South Great George's Street in Dublin city centre.

Pim's daughter Mary was the wife of pioneering lighthouse engineer John Richardson Wigham.

[3] His great-grandchildren included Sir Richard Pim, a British naval officer based at Downing Street during World War II, and Charles Bewley, an Irish diplomat and Republican.

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