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.
