Background
He was born in Whitehouse, County Antrim, the only child of Wrigley Grimshaw and Alicia Grimshaw. His father Wrigley Grimshaw was an eminent dentist and was dental surgeon to Doctor Steevens" Hospital and Saint Mark"s Hospital, Dublin.
He was born in Whitehouse, County Antrim, the only child of Wrigley Grimshaw and Alicia Grimshaw. His father Wrigley Grimshaw was an eminent dentist and was dental surgeon to Doctor Steevens" Hospital and Saint Mark"s Hospital, Dublin.
He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1858 and graduated in Arts in 1860, proceeding to the Bachelor of Medicine and M. Chir., degrees in 1861, and Doctor of Medicine
In 1867, while working at Doctor Steevens" Hospital and Sir Patrick Dun"s Hospital. He became a physician to the Coombe Women"s Hospital and held several lectureships in Doctor Steevens" Hospital. In 1879 he was appointed Registrar General for Ireland.
He was President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, and was known as a distinguished statistician.
He was also one of the founders of the Dublin Sanitary Association and of the Dublin Artisans" Dwellings Company Limited. 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 (Central Bank).
They lived at 13 Molesworth Street, Dublin (now the Passport Office). Grimshaw died at his residence at Carrickmines, County Dublin, on 23 January 1900.