Frederick Tom Brooks CBE FRS[1] (17 December 1882 – 11 March 1952) was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge.

During the First World War, he had the role of plant pathologist in the Department of Food Production.

He specialised in mycology and investigated, amongst other things, silver-leaf disease of fruit trees.

In 1956, Clifford Gerald Hansford circumscribed the genus Brooksia, a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes and named in Frederick Tom Brooks honour.

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