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Margoliouth, Moses, Ph.d., Ll.d.

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a minister of the Church of England, was born of Jewish parentage in 1818, at Suwalki, in Poland. In 1837 he arrived in England, and in the year following openly professed Christianity. In 1840 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and, after completing his studies, was ordained in 1844. He held various positions in the Episcopal Church, and at the time of his death, Feb. 25,1881, he was vicar of Little Linford, near Newport Pagnell, Bucks, Enigland. He is the author of many works: — Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated (Lond. 1843): — The Jews in Great Britain (ibid. 1846): — A Pilgrimage to the Land of mny Fathers (ibid. 1850, 2 volumes): — History of the Jews in Great Britain (1851, 3 volumes): — Abyssinia, its Past, Present, and Future (1866): — The Spirit of Prophecy (1864): — Sacred Minstrelsy: A Lecture on Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Music (1863): — The Oracles of God and their Vindication (1870): — Vestiges of the Historic Anglo-Hebrews in East Anglia (eod.): — The Poetry of the Hebrew Pentateuch (1871): — The Lord's Prayer no Adaptation of Existing Jewish Petitions (1876). Besides, he left a great many works in MS. (B.P.)