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)