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 by | Constituency abolished |
| Lord Mayor of Dublin | |
| In office 1 January 1874 – 1 January 1875 | |
| Preceded by | Sir James Mackey |
| Succeeded by | Peter Paul McSwiney |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1823 |
| Died | 6 December 1905 (aged 81–82) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| 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]
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References edit
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)
- ^ Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Redmond (2021), p. 50.
- ^ "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021" (PDF). Dublin City Council. June 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. G". National Archives of Ireland. 20 April 1863. p. 297. Retrieved 2 February 2023.