Samuel Wood Brooks (29 August 1840 – 9 February 1915) was a missionary and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[1] Brooks was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, to parents Francis Beattie and his wife Susannah (née Hannah).
He did missionary work in Fiji from 1865 but he was found to be having a relationship with a neighboring planter's wife and had to pay his own way back to Sydney in 1875.
[1] In Sydney, Brooks became a private school owner and was a partner in Brentnall Bros and Broola, Merchants in 1880.
Brooks died at New Farm, Brisbane in February 1915[1] and buried in the Toowong Cemetery.