Joshua William Brooks, M.A. was born in 1790 and died 15 February 1882: he was a priest in the Church of England.
Joshua William Brooks married Frances Summerscales on 1 January 1829 in Sandal Magna, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Brooks was ordained in 1820, and was successively
Curate of East Retford, Nottinghamshire 1821 - 1827Domestic Chaplain to Viscount Galway 1821 - 1827Vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Clarborough and St Saviour's Church Retford Nottinghamshire 1827 - 1843Rector of St. Helen's Church, Grove 1837 - 1843Domestic Chaplain to William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey c. 1840Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 1843 - 1864Prebendary of Lincoln 1858 - ca. 1882Rector of Great Ponton, 1864 - 1882At St. Mary's he led a campaign to open new churches in Nottingham which resulted in:
St. Matthew's Church, Talbot Street 1856St. Mark's Church, Nottingham 1856St. Luke's Church, Nottingham 1863St. Ann's Church, Nottingham 1864St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham 1864All Saints' Church, Nottingham, 1864The Investigator, (editor), 1831-1836A Dictionary of Writers on the PropheciesAbdiel's Essays on the Advent and Kingdom of Christ, 1834Elements of Prophetical Interpretation, 1836
