Edward Smith (biographer)

Edward Smith (1839–1919) was an English biographer.[1] 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.[2]

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

References
  1. "Smith, Edward, 1839-1919, The Online Books Page". Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  2. "Report of the Council for the Financial Year ended 31st December, 1875, and for the Sessional Year ended 27th June, 1876, Presented at the Forty-Second Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical Society, Held at the Society's Rooms, Somerset House Terrace (King's College Entrance), Strand, W. C., London, on 27 June 1876, with the Proceedings of that Meeting", Journal of the Statistical Society of London Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 1876) , pp. 445-458, at pp. 446 and 449. Published by: Wiley for the Royal Statistical Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338937


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