title: Maurice Brooks (MP)
text: # Maurice Brooks (MP)
  
  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.
  
  ## Arms
  
  Coat of arms of Maurice Brooks :
  
  * NotesGranted 20 September 1873 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.
  * CrestOn a mount Vert a badger passant Proper the dexter forepaw resting on a civic crown as in the arms.
  * EscutcheonAzure on a cross engrailed Argent a civic crown Vert in the first quarter a trefoil slipped Or.
  * MottoRespice Aspice Prospice
  