Maurice Brooks (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.
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) from which emerged the
Dublin Women's Suffrage Association. At Westminster he regularly presented the Association's suffrage petitions.
Brooks was
Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1874.
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UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
1823 births
1905 deaths
Home Rule League MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922)
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