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

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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.

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represented the Labor Party in

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and

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in the House of Assembly. Louis Shoobridge Sr. was the independent member for Derwent in the Legislative Council.

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