Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

_G.M. xii_, 561–9 (1874); _Illust. review iii_, 545–50 (1872), _portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 143–9 (1884); _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 128–33, _portrait_. BROOKS, GEORGE BENJAMIN. Entered Bombay army 1799; colonel 20 Bombay N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; commanded the field force in Upper Scinde 1840; general 30 Aug. 1860. _d._ Clewer hill, Windsor 4 Oct. 1862. _The memorial of G. B. Brooks to the Honorable the Court of directors of the East India Company_ 1842. BROOKS, JOHN (_only son of Rev. John Brooks, R. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs._) _b._ 7 April 1856; ed. at Harrow and Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1878; barrister I.T. 29 June 1881; M.P. for Altrincham division of Cheshire 27 Nov. 1885 to death. _d._ Eaton place, London 8 March 1886. BROOKS, VEN. JONATHAN (_son of Mr. Brooks of Liverpool, merchant_). _b._ Oldhall st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1775; ed. at Macclesfield sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; C. of Walton on the hill, C. of St. James’s Liverpool, and C. of St. George’s Liverpool successively; senior R. of Liverpool 7 Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1848 to death; chairman of Liverpool quarter sessions many years. _d._ Everton road, near Liverpool 29 Sep. 1855. _G.M. xliv_, 543–4 (1855). BROOKS, REV. JOSHUA WILLIAM. Curate of East Retford 1821–7; V. of Clareborough 1827–43; R. of Grove 1837–43; V. of St. Mary’s Nottingham 1843–64; rural dean 1855–64; preb. of Linc. cath. 1858 to death; R. of Great Ponton 1864 to death; author of _Elements of prophetical interpretation_ 1836; _History of the Hebrew nation_ 1841; edited _Abdiel’s Essays on the Advent of Christ_ 1844; _Proverbs of Solomon_ 1860. _d._ 17 Feb. 1882 aged 92. BROOKS, ROBERT. _b._ 1799; merchant and shipowner in London; M.P. for Weymouth 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 5 June 1882. Personalty sworn under £370,000, 15 July 1882. BROOKS, SAMUEL (_son of Wm. Brooks of Manchester, banker who d. about 1846_). _b._ Great Harwood 1792; calico printer in Manchester; opened a bank at Manchester as a branch of Cunliffe’s bank Blackburn; a great land improver, purchased estates at Moss Side, Baguley, Sale, Timperley and Partington; chairman of original meeting of promoters of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway 18 Oct. 1830. _d._ Whalley house, Whalley range, Manchester 7 June