Maurice_Brooks_(MP)

Maurice Brooks (politician)

Maurice Brooks (politician)

Irish Fianna Fáil politician (19XX–19XX)

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

Quick Facts Member of Parliament for Dublin City, Preceded by ...

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

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. [1]
    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)
  2. [2]
    Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
  3. [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. [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. [5]
    Redmond (2021), p. 50.
  6. [6]
    "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021" (PDF). Dublin City Council. June 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  7. [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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