Cecil Joslin Brooks (1875–1953) was a British metallurgical chemist who also collected insects, plants (especially ferns), animals and butterflies.
[3] Brooks was born in Cambridge on 7 May 1875 and educated at a private boarding school in Hastings[4] before going on to King's College, London.
Between 1907 and 1910 he returned to Sarawak as Cyanide Manager at Bidi and then later at Bau undertaking research on the Pahang Consolidated Co.'s tin ores, soils and agricultural matters.
He remarried in 1927, to Ada Lilian Beatrice Greenbank, née Harbord, who was born in Cork in June 1875.
[4] He studied his collections, including butterflies held in the British Museum of Natural History, where he was made an associate.