title: Edward Smith (biographer)
text: # 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
  