The Rev. Dr. Henry Paine Stokes, a prominent British clergyman and antiquarian and one of the few non-Jews who was president of the Jewish Historical Society of England, is dead here at the age of 82. Canon Stokes was president of the Jewish historical Society from 1914 to 1916. Among his works are A Short History of the Jews in England, Studies in Anglo-Jewish History and together with the late Dr. Israel Abrahams, Starr’s Jewish Charters.
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