Short biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hall_Brookes
Includes links to many books of him.
Martin
A recent biographer of Brookes acknowledges that Brookes met JND, but dismisses the suggestion that Brookes was influenced by Darby as 'dubious at best' (Carl E. Sanders, The Pre-millennial Faith of James Brookes: Re-examining the Roots of American Dispensationalism, [Lanham MD, 2001] 28-29, 35. Timothy Stunt.
In the July 1897 edition of "Chimes" F.E. Marsh gives a very touching tribute to J.H. Brookes - https://www.brethrenarchive.org/periodicals/miscellaneous/chimes-an-evangelical-magazine/