Edward Hine

Edward Hine (10 Feb 1825-15 Oct 1891) was an influential proponent of The Lost Tribes of Israel being in Europe in the 1870s and 1880s, drawing on the earlier work of Richard Brothers (1794) and John Wilson (1840). A bank clerk by occupation, Hine claimed that he had been inspired by a lecture given by Wilson in London, which he heard at the age of 15, but he himself did not publish on the topic for nearly thirty years, giving his first public lecture in 1869 (Barkun 1997, p. 10). For several...See more

Edward Hine (10 Feb 1825-15 Oct 1891) was an influential proponent of The Lost Tribes of Israel being in Europe in the 1870s and 1880s, drawing on the earlier work of Richard Brothers (1794) and John Wilson (1840). A bank clerk by occupation, Hine claimed that he had been inspired by a lecture given by Wilson in London, which he heard at the age of 15, but he himself did not publish on the topic for nearly thirty years, giving his first public lecture in 1869 (Barkun 1997, p. 10). For several years Hine published a weekly journal, The Nation's Leader, and a monthly magazine, Life from the Dead (from 1873 onwards). See less