Joshua William Brooks

Joshua William Brooks, M.A. (1790 – 15 February 1882) was a priest in the Church of England.

Family
Joshua William Brooks married Frances Summerscales on 1 January 1829 in Sandal Magna, West Riding of Yorkshire.

Career
Brooks was ordained in 1820, and was successively
 * Curate of East Retford, Nottinghamshire 1821–1827
 * Domestic Chaplain to Viscount Galway 1821–1827
 * Vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Clarborough and St Saviour's Church Retford Nottinghamshire 1827–1843
 * Rector of St. Helen's Church, Grove 1837–1843
 * Domestic Chaplain to William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey c. 1840
 * Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 1843–1864
 * Prebendary of Lincoln 1858 - ca. 1882
 * Rector of Great Ponton, 1864–1882

At St. Mary's he led a campaign to open new churches in Nottingham which resulted in:


 * St. Matthew's Church, Talbot Street 1856
 * St. Mark's Church, Nottingham 1856
 * St. Luke's Church, Nottingham 1863
 * St. Ann's Church, Nottingham 1864
 * St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham 1864
 * All Saints' Church, Nottingham, 1864

Publications

 * The Investigator, (editor), 1831–1836
 * A Dictionary of Writers on the Prophecies
 * Abdiel's Essays on the Advent and Kingdom of Christ, 1834
 * Elements of Prophetical Interpretation, 1836