Joshua Brooksbank

Joshua Brooksbank (22 March 1642 – 5 February 1692) was a Church of Ireland priest in Ireland during the late seventeenth century.^[1]

Brooksbank was born at Eccleshill, West Yorkshire and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.^[2] He graduated BA in 1664 and MA in 1667. He was ordained deacon by Matthew Wren the Bishop of Ely on 22 September 1664; and priest by William Fuller the Bishop of Lincoln on 12 March 1867. He was Precentor of Limerick Cathedral from 1689 until 1690;^[3] and Dean of Clonfert from 1670 until his death.^[4]