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Irish Fianna Fáil politician (19XX–19XX)
Maurice Brooks
In office 31 January 1874 – 24 November 1885Preceded by Succeeded by Constituency abolished In office 1 January 1874 – 1 January 1875Preceded by
Sir James Mackey Succeeded by
Peter Paul McSwiney
Born 1823 Died 6 December 1905(1905-12-06) (aged 81–82) Nationality Irish Political party
Maurice Brooks (c. 1823 – 6 December 1905)
[1] 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.
[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
^
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 .
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