[Edward Smith]. British actor, born at Brighton on the 9th of January 1853 and first appeared in The Lady of Lyons at Weymouth at the age of sixteen. He toured first with E. H. Sothern and then joined various stock companies, coming to London in 1875 and playing Antonio in The Merchant of Venice with Charles Rice in 1876. After a varied experience in Shakespearean and other plays he was engaged by Wilson Barrett in 1881 for the Princesss theatre, London, and until 1886 played leading parts in many melodramas, the most notable amongst them being The Spider in Henry Arthur Joness The Silver King. In 1889 he produced Joness The Middleman at the Shaftesbury theatre, London, afterward taking it to America. He played Professor Goodwillie in Barries The Professors Love Story in 1894 at the Comedy theatre, London. After 1903 he acted only in America, repeating these and other rôles; but in 1911 he played Brutus at the Gala performance of scenes from Julius Cæsar at His Majestys theatre, London. He died in London on the 9th of November 1915.