which he was a foundation member. Editor of the South Australian Institutes' Journal, a monthly publication. Member of several musical societies. He was a teetotaler. Recognition The Hundred of Coombe in the South East of South Australia was named for him. Family E. H. Coombe was the elder son of Ephraim Coombe (ca.1828 – 10 September 1908), a farm-labourer and shopkeeper from Barnstaple, Devon, and his wife Mary née Lock (ca.1836 – 23 February 1864). Ephraim married again, to Elizabeth Tall of Willunga on 22 February 1866. Thomas Coombe (21 June 1861 – 21 March 1935) storekeeper of Willaston and chairman of the Mudla Wirra South Council, was his brother. On 1 March 1880 in Adelaide he married Sarah Susannah Fraser Heywood (1861 – 25 November 1923) of Willaston. Three of their sons fought in World War I, one suffering maiming injuries and another killed. See also List of South Australian representative cricketers References External links Australian dictionary of Biography 1858 births 1917 deaths Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Australian cricketers South Australia cricketers Cricketers from South Australia People from Gawler, South Australia