Shoobridge, Louis Manton (1851 - 1939), Shoobridge, William Ebenezer (1846 - 1940), and Shoobridge, Robert Wilkins (1847 - 1936)

SHOOBRIDGE BROTHERS: William Ebenezer (1846-1940), politician, agriculturalist and industrial innovator, Robert Wilkins Giblin (1847-1936), agriculturalist and innovator, and Louis Manton (1851-1939), agriculturalist, politician and nature lover, were sons of Ebenezer Shoobridge (1820-1901), pioneer agriculturalist of Glenora and later member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, and his wife Charlotte, née Giblin. Grandsons of William Shoobridge, all three mirrored the paternal pattern of agricultural innovation and participation in local and State government.