Rev. Edward Hine (1825 –1891) was an author and lecturer. He learned the Anglo-Israel truth through listening to a lecture of John Wilson when he was 15 years old, and later in life became a influential preacher in the Anglo-Israel movement picking up where John Wilson left off. Hine hosted lectures and published a monthly magazine Life from The Dead and a weekly journal The Nation’s Leader promoting the Anglo-Israel truth. Men such as Rev. A. B. Grimaldi, Pro. Charles Piazzi Smyth, Major R. W. D. Nickle, Rev. Robert Polwhele, W. J. Cockburn-Muir, Harrison Oxley, Rev. Jonathan Titcomb, Captain H. G. Palmer, Edward Bird (penname Philo-Israel), J. B. Huntington, and many others contributed articles to Hine’s publications.

Hine also authored England’s Coming Glories (1880), The British Nation identified with Lost Israel (1871), Forty-seven Identifications of The British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel: Founded upon Five Hundred Scripture Proofs (1874). According to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia Hine’s book Forty-seven Identifications of The British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel had over a quarter million copies sold.