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

References

• Bowen, M. W. (1997) The Anglican Church in the Industrialised Town, St. Mary's Parish, Nottingham 1770-1884 (M. W. Bowen, MA, M Phil, University of Nottingham, October 1997)