Background
Sarah Pim was born in 1746 at Mountrath, Queen"s County.
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Career
After her husband"s death six years later, she ran his successful milling business, Anner Mills (3km North-East of Clonmel), herself. The Pim family moved to Middlesex in 1771 where they mixed with fashionable Quaker society in and around London. In 1778, Sarah Pim married John Grubb, a wealthy flour miller from Clonmel in Ireland.
Although a very wealthy family, the Grubbs chose to live very plainly and simply, in the Quaker tradition, in their comfortable home at Anner Mills.
They provided hospitality to numerous Quaker travelling ministers e.g. Catherine Phillips, William Savery, Thomas Reddan and Elizabeth Fry
She was independently successful as "Sarah Grubb, Miller and Corn Dealer"
Sarah Pim Grubb was greatly interested in social beneficence, a trait which combined with her business acumen, earned her the title "the Queen of the South"
She sent aid to those afflicted by the 1798 Rising, helped to found Newtown School in County Waterford, the Garryroan Meeting House in County Tipperary, helped German refugees in London, and helped support the fight against slavery
She died in 1832 leaving a fortune estimated at £100,000, at her home at Anner Mills.
She is buried in the Quaker Burial Ground, Clonmel.
