Jessie Payne or Mary Payne Smith

Career Writer / Academic / Linguist

Biography Jessie Payne Smith was the daughter of the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and later wife of the Professor of Arabic, David Samuel Margoliouth. She was a Syriac scholar. This might also be her sister Mary Payne Smith whp wrote a memoir of her father's life. In the entry her name is just given as Miss Payne Smith [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 09/03/2007]

Biography References ttp://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58372 / OLIS / http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21660 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Payne_Smith

Clubs & Societies Oxford University Anthropological Society

County No counties listed

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1924

Dates active 1856-1933 [Jessie]

Donated around 1924

English collections Textile uppers for a pair of slippers

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1856-1933

English collection size 1