Leonard Shoobridge

Leonard Knollys Haywood Shoobridge (20 October 1858 – 1 February 1935) was an English writer, archaeologist, poet and politician. He is best known as a contributor to The Book of Bodley Head Verse (edited by J. B. Priestley) and co-author with Professor Sir Charles Waldstein of Herculaneum, past, present & future.

Shoobridge was born in Kensington, London to William S Shoobridge, a solicitor and his wife Elizabeth, née Wansley. At the age of 13 he was living with his parents at 40 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington. He studied at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford where he took honours in classics, and was a student of Sir Arthur Blomfield, a noted English architect specialising in restoring old buildings and churches. He accompanied George Granville Leveson-Gower, his lifelong friend, on a trip to India and Ceylon between October 1886 and June 1887.

At the age of 33 Shoobridge remained unmarried, and lived on his own means with his widowed father at Albury Hall, Albury, Hertfordshire. In July 1892, he stood as Liberal candidate for the local seat of Staffordshire, North Western, a seat previously held by Leveson-Gower, but he came second to the Conservative candidate, James Heath (5638 votes, 5406 votes). He became the owner and local JP of The Lea, Tunstall near Eccleshall, Staffordshire. Following the death of his father in 1903, he designed and had constructed a very ornate grave for his parents in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Albury. Little remains because the grave was severely vandalised in 2009.

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