Horace (born Horatio) Smith (31 December 1779 – 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist, maybe greatest recognized for his participation in a sonnet-writing competitors with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him that Shelley stated: “Is it not odd that the one really beneficiant individual I ever knew who had cash sufficient to be beneficiant with must be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and but is aware of the right way to earn cash, and does make it, and continues to be beneficiant.”
