5. Mp, shipowner, convict contractor, merchant, banker Brooks Robert W.-11059 (William , Progenitor 2015 ) was born in 1790. He died on 5 Jun 1882.
MP shipowner, Pathways convict contractor, merchant, banker Robert W. Brooks (1790-1882). He assisted Caroline Chisholm, see her notes qv. Robert W. Brooks (1790-1882). Contractor. Code-red. He is of Union Bank. He is son2. He is member of Jerusalem Coffee House, where all merchants of the Australia trade woud meet and members of London's General Shipowners' Soc. See Burke's Landed Gentry for Younghusband formerly of Prior House. See his possible links to whaler Capt Thomas Collins qv. Both Dalgetys and Elders can trace some origins to the 1830s with John Gore and Rbt Brooks. He becomes an agency house for Ceylon, had earlier tried coffee from there, then tea (he backs the Bousteads of Ceylon). He helped found Younghusband and Co., wool dealers of Melbourne so see re James Cain. Before 1846 he is one of the largest importers of Australian wool and in 1846 is chairman of NSW and VDL Commercial Association which regulated London wool auctions of Australian wool. Robert Brooks and Co., the last co mpanyto survive, died in 1967. Various UBA directors in touch with Brooks are Joseph Dowson, Rbt Campbell, William Fletcher, Frederick Dalgety and Sir Charles Nicholson. He is also in Australasian Coal Mining Co. of 1853 and in Australasian Gold Mining Co. extended credit via UBA to Gold Mining Co. at Bathurst. And He joined Enderbys in 1849 with the Southern Whale Fishery. He raised funds for Caroline Chisholm but had no involvement in SA, NZ or WA Companies. He and John Gore in London are directors of the London Dock Company by the late 1830s. There are fourteen whaler ships in the 1850s. He had links to Thomas Icely, and the firm R. Town and Co., had partner Alexander Stuart 1824-1886 a colonial treasurer and in 1883-1885 premier of NSW. In the 1860s he has shipowning, wharfage, ship repair, Australian coastal trade, regional tea and sugar hauls, Pacific sandalwood trade, trade to Calcutta, some voyages to Britain, and Towns, with sugar and kanakas. He has an old friend John Richards. He has a Melbourne agent James Cain and a descendant is Max Ellis of Tamworth. By 1832 he deals with Launceston merchant Michael Connolly who links to Thomas Hewitt at Hobart, who linked to John Gore and Co. of London, qv, exporters from England and importers of Austn wool to Britain. He links to A. Fenn Kemp in Tasmania and Raine and Ramsay at Sydney. Family tradition is that he bought the first bale of Austn wool auctioned by the Lord Mayor himself of London. His father invests with Hull timber merchant John Barkworth who trained Rbt. Brooks. John Barkworth has son Thomas and connection, Joseph Dowson. The Union Bank (some directors are Philip Oakden and George Fife Angas see chairman from 1829-1862 LM Sir Peter Laurie qv) is rival in London to Bank of Australasia. He is chairman of the NSW and VDL Commercial Assoc, a founding director of Union Bank. He has estate Woodcote Park at Epsom. In 1855 he partners with Robert Spence as Rbt Brooks and Co. He made profits in Australian gold rush and Crimean war. See Broeze's essay on this man in Appleyard and Schedvin. He is named as a convict contractor (the info does not surface from Bateson) in roundtable on Broeze and Mr Brooks in Int. Jnl Maritime History, Vol. 6, No. 2, Dec. 1994, p. 201, in a comment by John Hackman that Brooks sent convicts to VDL, his ships still carried convicts in 1850 yet in 1851 he was on the society for Promotion of Colonisation that was anti-transp. Broeze, p. 203 by 1844 Brooks was the third-largest importer of wool from Aust and by 1846 he was chairman of the Committee of the NSW and VDL Merchants' Commercial Association; p. 203, in 1848 Brooks had enough prestige to be called before the 1848 Select Committee on Navigation Acts; p. 203, Brooks in 1847 had 12 ships, alternatively employed as cargo, migrant or convict carriers. re ship turnarounds, he handled goods for other merchants or exporters. In 1848 his ship Kinnear benefited when Brook's agent Robert Towns contracted to carry mail. And p. 202 of Broeze, British Intercontinental, Brooks quite "single-minded" all his ships made outward voyages to Aust and he preferred to load them for home in Aust itself, Broeze on Brooks p. 342 has it that Brooks largely controlled the firm of tea handlers in Ceylon, Boustead Bros, citing Sir Thomas Villiers, Mercantile Lore., Colombo 1940, and this info is not in D. M. Forrest, A Hundred Years of Ceylon Tea, 1867-1967, London, 1967, which latter is taken as a standard history. Cf A. Ellis, Heir of Adventure: the story of Brown, Shipley and Co, Merchant Bankers 1810-1960. Cf., Broeze, British Intercontinental Shipping and Australia, 1813-1850; notes taken. Robert Brooks is apprenticed to Hull timber merchant John Barkworth. Broeze on Brooks, p. 299, Note 8. Trin Truscett of Armidale notes, re name Penny, that in a cellar in South Audley St, London, is a collection of books on London wine merchants. He is a Conservative. Stenton on British Parlts, p. 50. His own entry in English DNB 2004 edition, by Frank Broeze. He is member of first commiittee re Family Colonization Loan Society, see Fifty-One Pieces of Wedding Cake, pp. 272-273.gapskey Cf., Correspondence between London and Australia by the English based banks 1838/ 1900, Holt, F. S., Australian Society of Archivists. Conference 1981: Promoting the Better Use of Archives in Australia [Article : 1981]. Keywords: Bank of Australasia; London Chartered Bank of Australia; Bank of South Australia.
The will (dated Feb. 17, 1871) of Mr. Robert Brooks, J. P., late of St. Peter's-chambers, Cornhill, and of Woodcote Park, Epson, who died on the 5th ult., was proved on the 29th by Robert Alexander Brooks, Henry Brooks, and Herbert Brooks, the sons, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £378,000. The testator leaves to his wife, Mrs. Hannah Brooks, his household furniture, jewellery, plate, pictures, books, horses, carriages, farming stock, and effects, £2000, and an annuity of £2500; she is also to have the use and enjoyment of his mansion house and estate, Woodcote Park, for life, but, if she elects so to do, she is to have instead an additional annuity of £500. On the termination of Mrs. Brooks's interest in the said estate, testator's and three sons are to have respectively, according to seniority, the option of purchasing it. To his grandson, Ernest Walter, the son of his deceased son Walter, he bequeaths £10,000; upon trust for his daughter, Mrs. May Browning, £10,000; and upon trust for his son, Arthur £8000. The residue of his real and personal estate he gives to his sons Robert Alexander, Henry, and Herbert. The deceased was the Conservative member of the House of Commons for Weymouth from 1859 to 1868.Source: The Illustrated London News, No.2254—Vol. LXXXI, Saturday, July 15, 1882, p.74, Of Woodcote Park, Epsom.
Robert married Penny Hannah-11066 daughter of trader, London wine merchant Penny Joshua-11070 and PNotknown Miss dummylink-11071 in Mar 1833. Hannah was born in 1801/1802. She died in Nov 1885 in Woodcote Park.
Is her mother a Dowson? She is a niece of Joseph Dowson. Broeze on Brooks. Broeze on Brooks, p. 68, she is wife of Robert Brooks, dr of London wine merchant Joshua Penny. After Mrs Hannah Brooks death was registered in Epsom for December Quarter 1885,Woodcote Park became the property of her son, Mr. Herbert Brookes, J.P., a Director of the Bank of England, from whom the estate was purchased by the Royal Automobile Club in 1913 for use as a country club.
Robert and Hannah had the following children:
12 M i Merchant, Australia trade Brooks Robert Alexander-11067 was born in 1835. He was christened in 1872.
2017 updates. He is a director of The British and Australasian Trust and Loan Co. Ltd capital of 200,000 pounds, Trustees are Hon Lord Wolverton. Frederick Gonnerman Dalgery, Sir Charles Henry Mills Bart MP. Directors are Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety, chair dep-chair is Sir Charles Clifford, George Arbuthnot. Robert Alexander Brooks, Colonel Sir Thomas Gore Browne KCMG, James Campbhell Esq, Lionel John William Fletcher, Rear admiral Henry Carr Glyn CB. Directors in Australia are chair James Blackwood, Hon Robert Simson, John Benn, Charles Ibbotson and AK Finlay. Melbourne solicitors are Taylor, Bucland and Gates. See his possible links to whaler Capt Thomas Collins qv. Broeze, on Brooks, p. 262. thepeerage.com. gapskeyRobert married Geils Katherine Pascal-622464 daughter of Lt Of Glasgow Geils John Edward-566768 and Uk writer Dickinson Frances Vickriss-117822 in 1862. Katherine was born in 1841. She died in 1866.
thepeerage.com.13 M ii Brooks Henry-11069 was born in 1837. 14 M iii Soldier Brooks Arthur-11072. 15 M iv Dir BofE, banker, Co director Brooks Herbert-11073 was born in 1842.
Code-red. Broeze, p. 262. Herbert is cleverest, is on the family business, a director of Bank of England and several other prominent City companies. Herbert BROOKS, J.P.
WOODCOTE PARK, EPSOM. Son of Robert Brooks, Esq., was born in 1842. He was educated at Harrow, and in 1874 married Alice, daughter of the Rev. Richard Buller. Mr. Brooks is J.P. for the County of Surrey. During the year 1910 he was High Sheriff of the county of London, and he is one of His Majesty's Lieutenants for the City. His Estate of Woodcote Park, near Epsom, originally formed part of the Manor of Horton, which at the beginning of the 15th century belonged to the Abbot and Convent of Chertsey. It consists of a spacious house supposed to have been rebuilt by Richard Evelyn in the 17th century, and of 338 acres of arable and woodland. This Richard Evelyn married in 1648, Elizabeth Mynne, who, with her sister Anne, was co-heiress to their father's Estates of Woodcote and Horton. The chief features of interest within the house are the painted ceilings and panellings. There is a magnificent Painted Gallery containing twelve large and fourteen small wooden panels which were painted in oils from designs executed by Philip, Duke of Orleans, when he was regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.
The larger of the two communicating Drawing Rooms has a ceiling beautifully painted by Antonio Verrio who came to England during the reign of Charles II., the subject being, "A Sacrifice to Diana". The centre panel is the work of a later Italian artist. The ceiling by Zucharelli in the smaller Drawing Room is scarcely less exquisite than the larger work. Peter Paul Rubens is the artist of the central panel in the Library ceiling, which room also contains a five carved wood mantel by Grinling Gibbons. The well-tended grounds are exceedingly rich in timber and include fine specimens of the oak, beech, chestnut, ash, fir, and cedar. There is a large rhododendron shrubbery and there are many pleasant woodland walks.
Extensive views are obtained from the house and grounds, in one direction over Epsom Downs, which adjoin the Estate.
Woodcote is within two miles of the old market town of Epsom which in the latter part of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th vied with Tunbridge Wells as a fashionable resort, its popularity arising from the discovery, in 1618, of Epsom Well, the waters of which attracted folk from far and near. It was patronised by Royalty, Charles II. and James II., being frequent visitors, and Pepys in his Diary records his sojourns in the neighbourhood. With the introduction of sea-bathing about 1753, Epsom's popularity as a watering-place began rapidly to decline.Herbert married Buller Alice-548407 daughter of Rev Buller Richard-124250 and Hornby Elizabeth-120828.
thepeerage.com.16 F v Brooks Jessie-11826. + 17 F vi Brooks May-11827 was born in 1849. She died in 1898. + 18 M vii Rev Brooks Walter-548403.
11. Brooks Thomas-163872 (William , Progenitor 2015 ) was born in 1793. He died in 1867.
No notes.
Thomas married BNotknown Miss-163873.
They had the following children:
19 M i Brooks Thomas Ostler-163874.
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