sketcher and public servant, was born in Bullevant, County Cork, Ireland, son of Henry Smith, an officer in the Imperial Service. He attended school in Bermuda and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before coming to Van Diemen’s Land with his family when his father was appointed superintendent of convicts. Henry Edwin Smith entered the civil service as a clerk in January 1848. He was promoted to the Survey Department in 1849 and remained there for twenty-two years. In 1871 he transferred to the Colonial Secretary’s Office where he was chief clerk from 1873 until his retirement in 1895. He died on 14 March 1904.
Smith’s major recreational interest was the Buckingham Volunteer Corps of Rifles of which he was first lieutenant and adjutant. He also sketched. The Mitchell Library holds a monotone watercolour of an unidentified landscape signed and dated 1847, and there is an album of his sketches in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.
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