Ebenezer Shoobridge (1820–1901) was an Australian politician. He represented the Electoral district of New Norfolk in the

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from the 1882 election until he was defeated at the 1886 election. Shoobridge was born at

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in 1820. His father William Shoobridge moved his family to

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in 1822, traveling on the ''Denmark Hill''. Shoobridge was married three times. He married Charlotte Giblin in 1841. She died in January 1879. He then married Annie Paxton (née Bruce) in July 1880. She died in April 1886 and he next married Louisa Caroline Collins-Harvey in August 1886. Two of Shoobridge's sons later sat in the Tasmanian Parliament.

William Shoobridge William Ebenezer Shoobridge (7 January 1846 – 17 May 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born in Richmond, Tasmania, Richmond, Van Diemen's Land. He unsuccessfully contested the Electoral results for the Division of Franklin#1910, ...

represented the Labor Party in

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and Wilmot in the House of Assembly. Louis Shoobridge Sr. was the independent member for Derwent in the

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