Maurice Brooks (MP)

Maurice Brooks (1823 – 6 December 1905)[1] was an Irish Home Rule League politician, and woman's suffragist.

Maurice Brooks
MP
Member of Parliament
for Dublin City
In office
31 January 1874 – 24 November 1885
Serving with Arthur Guinness (until 1880)
Robert Dyer Lyons (from 1880)
Preceded byJonathan Pim
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Lord Mayor of Dublin
In office
1 January 1874 – 31 December 1874
Preceded byJames William Mackey
Succeeded byPeter Paul McSwiney
Personal details
Born1823
Died6 December 1905
NationalityIrish
Political partyHome Rule League

He was elected Home Rule Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin City in 1874, and remained MP until the seat was abolished in 1885.[2]

In February 1871, at the end of a woman's suffrage tour of Ireland undertaken by Isabella Tod, Brooks attended the formation in Dublin of a committee (which he regularly attended with the Orangeman and unionist MP for Belfast, William Johnston)[3] from which emerged the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association.[4] At Westminster he regularly presented the Association's suffrage petitions.[5]

Brooks was Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1874.[6]

Arms
Coat of arms of Maurice Brooks
Notes
Granted 20 September 1873 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.[7]
Crest
On a mount Vert a badger passant Proper the dexter forepaw resting on a civic crown as in the arms.
Escutcheon
Azure on a cross engrailed Argent a civic crown Vert in the first quarter a trefoil slipped Or.
Motto
Respice Aspice Prospice

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)
  2. Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
  3. Redmond, Jennifer (2021), "The ‘success of every great movement had been largely due to the free and continuous exercise of the right to petition’: Irish suffrage petitioners and parliamentarians in the nineteenth century", in Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Lyndsey Jenkins (eds). The Politics of Women's Suffrage. University of London, pp. (25-58), 41 ISBN 978-1-912702-98-5
  4. O'Neill, Marie (1985). "The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association and Its Successors". Dublin Historical Record. 38 (4): (126–140), 127. ISSN 0012-6861.
  5. Redmond (2021), p. 50.
  6. "Lord Mayor's of Dublin 1665 - 2015" (PDF). Dublin City Council. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  7. "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. G,". National Archives of Ireland. p. 297. Retrieved 2 February 2023.


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