Maurice Brooks (politician) explained

Maurice Brooks
Office:Member of Parliament
for Dublin City
Term Start:31 January 1874
Term End:24 November 1885
Successor:Constituency abolished
Office2:Lord Mayor of Dublin
Term Start2:1 January 1874
Term End2:1 January 1875
Predecessor2:Sir James Mackey
Successor2:Peter Paul McSwiney
Birth Date:1823
Nationality:Irish

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

He was elected Home Rule Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin City in 1874, and remained MP until the seat was abolished in 1885.[1]

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)[2] from which emerged the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association.[3] At Westminster he regularly presented the Association's suffrage petitions.[4]

Brooks was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1874 to 1875.[5]

Arms

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
Notes:Granted 20 September 1873 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 0901714127.
  2. 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
  3. O'Neill . Marie . 1985 . The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association and Its Successors . Dublin Historical Record . 38 . 4 . (126–140), 127 . 30100670 . 0012-6861.
  4. Redmond (2021), p. 50.
  5. Web site: Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021 . Dublin City Council. June 2020. 9 March 2024.
  6. Web site: Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. G . National Archives of Ireland . 2 February 2023 . 20 April 1863 . 297.