Jonathan Brooks (priest)

Jonathan Brooks[1] (1774 - 1855) was the inaugural[2] Archdeacon of Liverpool.[3]

Brooks was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] After curacies in Walton-on-the-Hill and Liverpool he was the Rector of St Nicholas Liverpool[5] from 1828 to 1855; and Rural Dean of Warrington from 1850.[6]

He died on 28 September 1855.[7][8] There is a statue to him inside St George's Hall, Liverpool.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ NPG details
  2. ↑ British History On-line
  3. ↑ 'ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE' Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Thursday, October 5, 1848; Issue 4321.
  4. ↑ Venn Database
  5. ↑ University of Liverpool
  6. ↑ University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 16, 1850; pg. 4; Issue 20673
  7. ↑ THE LATE ARCHDEACON BROOKS. The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, October 05, 1855; pg. 5; Issue 25509
  8. ↑ National Archives
  9. ↑ St George's Hall and St John's Gardens, Liverpool
  10. ↑ Liverpool Monuments
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