Edward Smith (biographer)

Edward Smith (1839–1919) was an English biographer. A Fellow of the Statistical Society, Smith was awarded its Howard Medal in 1875, for an essay on "The State of the Dwellings of the Poor [...]", then published as The Peasant's Home.

Works

• The Peasant's Home, 1760-1875 (1876)
• William Cobbett: A Biography (1878)
• The Story of the English Jacobins (1881)
• Foreign Visitors in England (1889)
• England and America after Independence (1900)
• The Life of Sir Joseph Banks (1911)

Contributions to the DNB

• John Almon
• Thomas Amyot
• Edward Baines
• Samuel Bamford
• William Pleydell-Bouverie
• Hugh Boyd (1746-1794)
• Francis Burdett
• Mathew Carey
• John Cartwright (1740-1824)
• William Cobbett

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