Maurice Brooks (politician)
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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 ...
Maurice Brooks | |
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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(1905-12-06) (aged 81–82) |
Nationality | Irish |
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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]