# Sarah Grubb

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For the Quaker minister, writer and founder of a girl's school in Ireland, see [Sarah Tuke Grubb](/source/Sarah_Tuke_Grubb).

**Sarah Pim Grubb** (11 December 1746 – 1832) was a businesswoman and Quaker benefactor[1] in [Clonmel](/source/Clonmel), [County Tipperary](/source/County_Tipperary), Ireland. She married a miller and corn dealer named John Grubb in 1778.[2] After her husband's death six years later, she ran his successful milling business, Anner Mills (3 km NE of Clonmel), herself.[3]

## Early life and marriage

Sarah Pim was born in 1746 at [Mountrath](/source/Mountrath), Queen's County. She was the first child of the wealthy Dublin wool merchant [John Pim](/source/John_Pim) and his wife, Sarah Clibborn of Moate Castle. Her 15 siblings included [Joshua Pim](/source/Joshua_Pim_(1748%E2%80%931822)) and Joseph Pike Pim, notable merchants of [Usher's Island](/source/Usher's_Island_(Dublin)), Dublin.[4] She was related through both her parents to the most prominent Quaker families at that time.[5] The Pim family moved to [Middlesex](/source/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](/source/Clonmel) in Ireland. Although a very wealthy family, the Grubbs chose to live very plainly and simply,[6] in the Quaker tradition, in their comfortable home at Anner Mills. They provided hospitality to numerous Quaker travelling ministers e.g. [Catherine Phillips](/source/Catherine_Phillips), [William Savery](/source/William_Savery), Thomas Reddan and [Elizabeth Fry](/source/Elizabeth_Fry).

After John Grubb's death due to overwork in 1784, Sarah Pim Grubb ran the mills herself with the help of her brother Joshua, a Dublin banker. She was independently successful as 'Sarah Grubb, Miller and Corn Dealer'.[7]

## Legacy

Grubb was greatly interested in social beneficence, a trait which combined with her business acumen, earned her the title 'the Queen of the South'.[1]

She sent aid to those afflicted by the 1798 Rising, helped to found [Newtown School](/source/Newtown_School,_Waterford) in County Waterford, the Garryroan Meeting House in [County Tipperary](/source/County_Tipperary), helped German refugees in London, and helped support the fight against [slavery](/source/Slavery).[8]

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](/source/Clonmel).

## References

1. Lamb, Peter (23 September 2004). ["Grubb \[née Pim\], Sarah (1746–1832), miller and benefactor"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/abstract/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-53489). [doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53489](https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/53489). Retrieved 13 August 2018.

1. ["My Family"](http://www.grubb.co.uk/d7.htm). *grubb.co.uk*. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

1. Fitzgerald, Orla (18 May 1999). ["The Origin and Development of the Portlaw Cotton Industry 1825 - 1840"](http://homepage.eircom.net/~portlawns/Pages/cotton_industry.htm). *homepage.eircom.net*. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

1. ["Pim (Later Grubb), Sarah | Dictionary of Irish Biography"](https://www.dib.ie/biography/pim-later-grubb-sarah-a7351)

1. Harrison, R.S. *a Biographical dictionary of Irish Quakers* 1997

1. Evans. J. *A Journal of The Life, Travels and Religious Labours of William Savery* (1844) London

1. Business Directory of Clonmel, 1787

1. Some Account of The Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb (1794) Phillips

## External links

- Watkins Grubb, G. (1972) *The Grubbs of Tipperary: Studies in heredity and character* London: Mercer Press

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