Jessie Payne Margoliouth

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Jessie Payne Margoliouth née Smith (1856–1933) was a Syriac scholar.

A daughter of Robert Payne Smith, she translated her father's Thesaurus Syriacus into English in 1903 as A Compendious Syriac Dictionary.

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D. G. K. Taylor, ‘Margoliouth , Jessie Payne (1856–1933)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Feb 2008