About Edward Smith
Lived 1839 – 1919 (aged 79–80). Edward Smith was a 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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English biographer (1839–1919)
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