Edward Smith (biographer)
# 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
