Maurice Brooks (politician)

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

Maurice Brooks
Member of Parliament
for Dublin City
In office
31 January 1874 – 24 November 1885
Preceded by
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Lord Mayor of Dublin
In office
1 January 1874 – 1 January 1875
Preceded bySir James Mackey
Succeeded byPeter Paul McSwiney
Personal details
Born1823
Died6 December 1905(1905-12-06) (aged 81–82)
NationalityIrish
Political party

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 from 1874 to 1875.[6]

Arms

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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

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  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. JSTOR 30100670.
  5. ^ Redmond (2021), p. 50.
  6. ^ "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021" (PDF). Dublin City Council. June 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. G". National Archives of Ireland. 20 April 1863. p. 297. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dublin City
18741885
With: Arthur Guinness (until 1880)
Robert Dyer Lyons (from 1880)
Constituency abolished
Civic offices
Preceded by Lord Mayor of Dublin
1874–1875
Succeeded by