Edwin Whitney-Smith [also known as Edwin Whitney Smith; and as Edwin Smith] was born in Bath, Somerset, England on 2 August 1880 and studied sculpture at Bath School of Art and Bristol School of Art. In c.1911 he moved to London and embarked on a career as a sculptor. He exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.; and at the Paris Salon His work was also shown at the Palace of Arts, British Empire Exhibition in Scotland in 1938. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS) in 1915, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS) in 1938. He was also a member of the St. John's Wood Art Club. He died in London on 8 January 1952.

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