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. In February 1871, at the end of a woman's suffrage tour of Ireland undertaken by

Isabella Tod Isabella Maria Susan Tod (18 May 1836 – 8 December 1896) was a Scottish-born campaigner for women’s civil and political equality, active in the north of Ireland. She lobbied for women’s rights to education and to property, for the di ...

, 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 The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association (DSWA), later the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association (IWSLGA), was a women's suffrage organisation based in Dublin from 1876 to 1919, latterly also campaigning for a greater role for wom ...

. At Westminster he regularly presented the Association's suffrage petitions. Brooks was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1874 to 1875.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Maurice 1820s births 1905 deaths UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Home Rule League MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922) Lord mayors of Dublin