Edmund Horace Smith

Smith was born in Beverley, a small town in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region, to Anne (née Chapman) and Charles Smith. He lived in the North West for a period in the 1880s, and then returned to Beverley, where he worked as a storekeeper. Smith was elected to the Beverley Road Board in 1894, and served until 1896, including as chairman for a period.^[1] He was elected to parliament at the 1905 state election, running as a Ministerialist (a supporter of the government of Hector Rason). Smith held his seat until the 1908 election, where he was defeated by John Hopkins.^[2]

Smith died in Beverley in July 1931, aged 76. He had married Julia Edwards in 1885, with whom he had ten children. One of his daughters married James Mann, who was also a member of parliament.^[3]