David Brooks (lord mayor)
Sir Arthur David Brooks was Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1917, 1918, and 1919.
A solicitor, he was elected to the Birmingham City Council in 1901 as a Conservative and was elected an alderman in 1911. In 1917, he was elected Lord Mayor in succession to Neville Chamberlain, who had been appointed Director of National Service. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 "For services in connection with the War".