Jessie Payne Margoliouth

Jessie Payne Margoliouth (née Smith; 23 February 1856 – 18 August 1933) was a British Syriac scholar and campaigner for women's suffrage.

[1] Margoliouth was born Jessie Payne Smith on 23 February 1856 in Kensington, London, England.

She also published a Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith in 1927, adding 345 pages of new entries.

[1] On 25 April 1896, she married David Samuel Margoliouth, Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford.

[1][3] She was also the founding chair of the Oxford branch of the Church League for Women's Suffrage, serving from 1910 until 1913.