Cleveland, Detroit and Toronto. He died in 1891 (1)
The years 1874-8 saw the formation of voluntary Associations
for the promlgation of Anglo-Israelisn in Southampton, Bristol,
London, Hastings and Portsmouth. The interest that Wilson had aroused
by oral and printed lectures and which had resulted only in study
grops, became a movement with definite consistency when Hine and others
began to actively promote it. Among the names of the organizers of
these first Associations are to be found those of ©. W. Bird, Douglas
Onslow, F. R. A. Glover, L. G. A. Roberts, and later those of Denis
Hanan, H. Alder Smith, and W. "I. H. ilner. (2)
E. W. 3ird, a retired judge from the indian civil service, first
contributed to ‘line's Life from the Dead in 1875, and then himself
began and edited The Sanner of Israel from 1877 to 1903, under the
nom-de-plume of Philo-Israel. = Like Hine he gave his full time to
the Identity liovement and must rank with him in his contribution to
its eventual success. |
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Douglas Onslow, J.P., a close associate of E. W. Bird, was
vice-chairman and then rresident of the Imperial British-Israel Asso-
ciation from 1879 to 1919, a total of forty years of active leadership.
Archdeacon Jenis danan, D.D., first contributed to Bird's Banner
in 1680, he obtained his D.D. degree in 1891 by writing a thesis on
israel, and in collaboration with Dr. Alder Smith, M.3
., F.R.C.S.,
produced Sritish-Israel Truth, a Handbook covering all the main argu-
ments with chapters by Bird, Onslow, :ilner, lanan, Alder Smith and
(1) parker, National .essage, July 17, 1948, pp. 237-8