Background
Smith was educated at Tonbridge School where he was in the day house Welldon House and his father novelist Jonathan Smith taught English for most of his career. Ed went on to Peterhouse, Cambridge to read history and earned full blues playing for the university cricket team. He scored a century on his first-class debut for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1996 and graduated with a double first despite devoting much of his time to cricket.
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