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Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, and other countries. Their first-hand observations on the habits of the people, and the relation between poverty and drink in
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early in their married life, and both became actively enlisted in the work of the Order. It was in the lodge meetings that Mrs. Brooks first attempted to read and speak in public. Beginning with fear and trembling, she gradually acquired the ability to address the largest audiences.
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Of the nine surviving children, one resigned Quaker membership in 1886 and three more in 1915. His daughter Mabel
Winifred (b. 1872) remained a Friend and married, in 1897, Henry Jeffrey Simpson (1868–1938) an employee and later partner in the family cement manufacturing company.
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In 1893, she was one of the founders of the WTAU and served successively as honorary secretary, president, and member of the executive committee. In the summer of 1897, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks held a garden party at their home "Duvals", Grays, for temperance workers and
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Library of the Society of Friends, London holds a transcript of the Registers of Birth, Death and Marriage of English, Scottish and Welsh Quaker Monthly Meetings and a typescript Dictionary of Quaker Biography
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Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, in association with a few
Friends, were instrumental in starting a coffee-tavern at Grays, which proved a great boon to the people who needed it most as a welcome substitute for the
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