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Albert E. Brookes was an enthusiastic entomologist and conchologist from New Zealand. He was a life member of the Conchology Section of the Auckland Institute and Museum, also known as the Auckland Shell Club, and served as its president from 1948 to 1950. Edwin Ashby (1861-1941), an English naturalist, named a new species of molluscs found in New Zealand in honour of Brookes: Acanthochitona brookesi Ashby, 1926.

Rev. Charles Henry Brooks was born on September 6, 1846, in Lennoxville, Quebec.

He was educated at Bishop's College School and McGill University. His father was one of the founders of the Grand Trunk Railway. He belonged to a Congregationalist family and took his divinity course at the Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts. In 1876, he left for missionary work and he spent sixteen years working in Constantinople. In 1892, he returned to Canada, joined the Church of England, and after serving several parishes came to Grafton, Ontario as Rector of St. George Anglican Parish.

In 1876, he married Fannie Wallace of London, Ontario. He died on July 17, 1914, in Orillia, Ontario.