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- Edwin William Smith (* 7. September 1876 in Aliwal North, Südafrika; † 23. Dezember 1957 in Deal, England) war ein britischer Militär-Geistlicher der Methodisten, Missionar, Ethnologe, Linguist, Historiker und Afrikanist. Er verfasste ein Handbuch der -Sprache und erforschte zusammen mit Andrew Murray Dale die ilasprachige Bevölkerung von Nordrhodesien (heute: Sambia), seinem Wirkungsgebiet als Missionar. Smith war der Haupt-Übersetzer der Bibel in die Ila-Sprache. Er war Mitglied des Königlichen Anthropologischen Instituts. (de)
- The Reverend Edwin William Smith FRAI (1876 – 1957) was a Primitive Methodist missionary/anthropologist and author who was born in South Africa, studied at Elmfield College from 1888, and then worked in Africa. The scholar of African Christian history, Adrian Hastings refers to 1925–1950 as "the age of Edwin Smith". He was born at Aliwal North, South Africa, on 7 September 1876. His parents were missionaries of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. His father, John Smith (1840–1915), went to Aliwal North in 1874 and spent ten of the next fourteen years there. Returning to London, he became secretary of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in the 1890s and president of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1898. In 1899 he married Julia, daughter of James Fitch of Peasenhall, Suffolk. He served in Africa as a missionary of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1898–1915. (en)
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- Edwin William Smith (* 7. September 1876 in Aliwal North, Südafrika; † 23. Dezember 1957 in Deal, England) war ein britischer Militär-Geistlicher der Methodisten, Missionar, Ethnologe, Linguist, Historiker und Afrikanist. Er verfasste ein Handbuch der -Sprache und erforschte zusammen mit Andrew Murray Dale die ilasprachige Bevölkerung von Nordrhodesien (heute: Sambia), seinem Wirkungsgebiet als Missionar. Smith war der Haupt-Übersetzer der Bibel in die Ila-Sprache. Er war Mitglied des Königlichen Anthropologischen Instituts. (de)
- The Reverend Edwin William Smith FRAI (1876 – 1957) was a Primitive Methodist missionary/anthropologist and author who was born in South Africa, studied at Elmfield College from 1888, and then worked in Africa. The scholar of African Christian history, Adrian Hastings refers to 1925–1950 as "the age of Edwin Smith". In 1899 he married Julia, daughter of James Fitch of Peasenhall, Suffolk. He served in Africa as a missionary of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1898–1915. (en)
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