The next, and last for 2024, City Council plaque will commemorate physician and philanthropist Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw (1839-1900), who lived in Molesworth Street from 1861 to 1881.
The plaque replaces a missing Dublin Tourism plaque and will be unveiled by Lord Mayor James Geoghegan at 10 Molesworth Street at 11.30 a.m. on 16 November 2024; all are welcome.
Born near Belfast in 1839, Grimshaw was educated at Trinity College, the Royal College of Surgeons, and Dr Steevens’ Hospital, where he was appointed professor of botany at the age of 23.
Going on to work in the Cork Street Fever Hospital, the Coombe Lying-In Hospital, and the Dublin Orthopaedic Hospital, he kept up his involvement with Dr Steevens’ hospital, where he was elected professor of medicine in 1878.
Throughout his career he was interested in public health and statistics, and he was appointed Registrar General of Ireland in 1879.
Grimshaw served as president of the Statistical Society of Ireland in 1888–90 and as president of the Royal College of Physicians in 1895–6.
You can read more about Thomas Henry Grimshaw at the Dictionary of Irish Biography.