Background
He was born of Jewish parents at Suwałki, Poland, on 3 December 1820.
He was born of Jewish parents at Suwałki, Poland, on 3 December 1820.
He published History of the Jews in Great Britain (1851) and Vestiges of the Historic Anglo-Hebrews in East Anglia (1870). He was instructed at Pryerosl, Grodno, and Kalwarya in talmudic and rabbinical learning, and also acquired Russian and German. Foreign a time he obtained a livelihood by giving lessons in Hebrew, but in January 1840 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, to prepare for ordination, and during the vacations studied at the Hebrew College, London.
In 1843, he became instructor of Hebrew, German, and English at the Liverpool Institution for inquiring Jews.
On 30 June 1844, he was ordained to the curacy of Saint Augustine, Liverpool. Three months later, the Bishop of Kildare obtained for him the incumbency of Glasnevin, near Dublin, and made him his examining chaplain.
The parish being small, Margoliouth had much leisure for literary pursuits. He started a Hebrew Christian monthly magazine, entitled The Star of Jacob, which extended to six numbers (JanuaryJune 1847), and tried to establish a Philo-Hebraic Society for promoting the study of Hebrew literature, and for reprinting scarce Hebrew works.
He subsequently served curacies at Tranmere, Cheshire.
Saint Bartholomew, Salford. Wybunbury, Cheshire (1853-1855). Saint Paul, Haggerston, London.
Wyton, Huntingdonshire.
And Saint Paul, Onslow Square, London. In 1857, he accepted the Doctor of Philosophy degree of Erlangen.
Among his own people he was an indefatigable worker In 1847, he visited the Holy Land, and on his return published an interesting account of his wanderings.
In 1877, he was presented to the vicarage of Little Linford, Buckinghamshire.
He died in London on 25 February 1881, and was buried in Little Linford churchyard.