Edgar Brookes

Professor Edgar Harry Brookes (4 February 1897–1979) was a former South African Liberal senator and former South African representative to the League of Nations.

Biography

Brookes was born in Smethwick, England in 1879 but attended Maritzburg College in KwaZulu-Natal where he matriculated in 1911. He attended the University of South Africa and the London School of Economics.

Some of his early works are noted for stressing the advantages of separate development of the races in South Africa, but it is noted that his views changed during his life. Brooks was involved with the South African Institute for Race Relations in the 1920s. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=19prds0saccC&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=%22Edgar+brookes%22+liberal&source=web&ots=EoaX4NeGdg&sig=2VKoLBiU_PInCZu5DRL1u8AhSzg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result Colonial South Afria and the origins of the racial order] , Timothy J. Keegan, 1996, ISBN 0718501349] He became a Liberal senator in 1937 and retired as the senator for Zululand in 1953. Between 1933 and 1945 he was the Principal of Adams College. He was a professor of History and Political Science at the University of Natal. [ [http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=6420 Whos Who of Southern Africa] , accessed 8 August 2008]

Works

* "History of Native Policy in South Afric" (1924)
* "The Native Reserves of Natal" (with N. Hurwitz)
* "The City of God" (1960)
* "A History of the University of Natal" (1967)

References