Maurice Brooks ( – 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)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 from which emerged the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association. At Westminster he regularly presented the Association's suffrage petitions.Redmond (2021), p. 50.
Brooks was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1874 to 1875.
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