Arts and Sports
In 1887/88, Coombe had played first class cricket for South Australia. However, he only played in one match scoring 10 runs.
Coombe was active in the arts, being governor of the Adelaide Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery in 1901–06. He also wrote a history of his home town, History of Gawler, 1837–1908, published by the Gawler Institute in 1910 as a memento of the jubilee of the Institute and the Municipality of Gawler, 1908.
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