Gerard Edwards Smith
Gerard Edwards Smith (1804–1881) was a Church of England cleric and botanist. Life Born at Camberwell, Surrey, he was sixth son of Henry Smith. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in January 1814, and St. John's College, Oxford, as Andrew's exhibitioner, in 1822; he graduated B.A. in 1829. He was ordained that year, and became a curate at Sellinge; and then at Stoughton, West Sussex and East Marden in 1833. Smith was vicar of St. Peter-the-Less, Chichester, from 1835 to 1836, rector of North Marden, Sussex, from 1836 to 1843, vicar of Cantley, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, from 1844 to 1846, and perpetual curate of Ashton Hayes, Cheshire, from 1849 to 1853. He was vicar of Osmaston-by-Ashbourne, Derbyshire, from 1854 to 1871. He died at Ockbrook, near Derby, on 21 December 1881, and his herbarium was preserved at University College, Nottingham. Works Before being ordained Smith published his major botanical work, A Catalogue of rare or remarkable Phanogamous Plants collected in South Kent, London, 1829, which is dated from Sandgate. The Catalogue, of 76 pages, is arranged by the Linnæan system, deals critically with several groups, and had coloured plates drawn by the author. Smith was the first to recognise several British