Edgar Albert Smith

Edgar Albert Smith
Born	(1847-11-29)29 November 1847 London, England
Died	22 July 1916(1916-07-22) (aged 68) Acton, London, England
Children	6
Parent(s)	Frederick Smith
Academic career
Fields	Zoology, malacology
Institutions	British Museum, now named Natural History Museum
Author abbrev. (zoology)	E. A. Smith

Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British zoologist, a malacologist.

His father was Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury.^[1] Edgar Albert Smith was educated both at the North London Collegiate School and privately, being well grounded in Latin amongst other subjects, as his excellent diagnoses bear witness.^[2]

Smith married in July 1876.^[2] Subsequently, his wife and he had four sons and two daughters.^[2]

He gave more prominent attention to the fauna of the African Great Lakes and the marine molluscs of South Africa,^[2] and also the non-marine mollusc fauna of Borneo and New Guinea.^[2]