Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw

Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw CB (16 November 1839 – 23 January 1900) was an Irish physician, surgeon and statistician who became Registrar General for Ireland from 1879 to 1900.

[1] He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1858 and graduated in Arts in 1860, proceeding to the M.B.

He was President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, and was known as a distinguished statistician.

[1] In 1897 he was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and the same year he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).

Grimshaw died at his residence at Carrickmines, County Dublin, on 23 January 1900.