MACHIM, MASAHOD COHEN:

Moorish envoy to England, in 1813, from Mulai Sulaiman, Emperor of Morocco (1794-1822), in whose reign Christian slavery was abolished in Morocco. His son Meïr Cohen Machim visited England in the same capacity in 1827.

Bibliography:
  • Picciotto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History, p. 174;
  • M. Margoliouth, History of the Jews in Great Britain, ii. 197.
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