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  Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, was born in London on 21st December, 1804.
Disraeli's maiden speech in the House of Commons was poorly received and after enduring a great deal of barracking ended with the words: "though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me." Disraeli was now a progressive Tory and advocated triennial parliaments and the secret ballot.
Benjamin Disraeli argued that the Conservatives were in danger of being seen as an anti-reform party.
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  Benjamin Disraeli - Wikipedia
Benjamin Disraeli stammte aus einer sefardisch-jüdischen Familie aus Italien.
Disraeli trug der Königin den Titel Kaiserin von Indien an, was die Begründung des British Empire fundierte.
Disraeli konnte ein sehr gutes, vor allem für Großbritannien günstiges Vertragswerk aushandeln, Großbritannien erhielt Zypern.
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 MSN Encarta - Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), British writer and prime minister (1868 and 1874-1880), who for more than three decades exerted a profound influence on British politics and left an enduring stamp on the Conservative Party, known until the 1830s as the Tory Party.
Disraeli's most spectacular triumph in external affairs came in 1878 as British plenipotentiary to the Congress of Berlin, which redrew the boundaries of southeastern Europe after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War.
Disraeli was a conservative in his zeal to expand the British empire and a radical in his support of government reform and his effort to extend the vote to the working class.
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 Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Disraeli was of Jewish ancestry, but his father, the literary critic Isaac D’Israeli, had him baptized (1817).
He was chancellor of the exchequer in the brief governments of the earl of Derby in 1852 and 1858–59, and after continuing opposition during the Liberal governments of Palmerston and Russell, he became chancellor under Derby again in 1866.
Disraeli’s second ministry (1874–80) enacted many domestic reforms in housing, public health, and factory legislation, but it was more notable for its aggressive foreign policy.
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 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.
Disraeli was apparently determined to obtain independent means, and speculated on the stock exchange as early as 1824 on various South American mining companies.
Disraeli was a staunch British imperialist and helped strengthen the British Empire with his support for the construction of the Suez Canal.
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 Benjamin Disraeli Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Benjamin Disraeli was born on Dec. 21, 1804, in London, the second child and first son of Isaac D'Israeli, a Sephardic Jew whose father, Benjamin, had come from Cento near Ferrara, Italy.
Disraeli at this time was a thin, dark-complexioned young man with long fl ringlets; he dressed extravagantly, in fl velvet suits with ruffles and fl silk stockings with red clocks.
Disraeli and Salisbury represented England at the Congress of Berlin (1878), from which they returned bringing "peace with honour." (His phrase was used by Neville Chamberlain in another context in 1938.) Among the acts passed during Disraeli's premiership were the 1874 and 1878 Factory Acts and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1878.
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 Benjamin Disraeli - Britannia Biographies
Disraeli served as chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby as prime minister in Conservative governments of 1852, 1858-59 and 1866-68.
Disraeli became prime minister for the second time in 1874 at the age of 70.
Disraeli represented British interests in the Congress of Berlin, 1878, which brought peace as well as Cyprus under British flag.
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 Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli was elected to represent Maidstone as a Peelite in 1837.
Disraeli threw himself into the job of Opposition, and was active until a month before his death from bronchitis in April 1881.
Disraeli's Wife was born Mary Anne Evans in 1792.
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 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
Mrs Disraeli's invitation to attend the Duke of Wellington's funeral 18 Nov. 1852.
Benjamin Disraeli born on Friday, December 21, to Isaac and Maria D'Israeli.
Disraeli defeated again at Wycombe; he joins the Conservative Party; at Taunton, Disraeli suffers another defeat, this time as a Tory; publication of The Vindication of the English Constitution.
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 Benjamin Disraeli
But it is as a writer that he features in these pages - he was one of a wide band of authors of both factual and fictional work who took Manchester as their subject and focused the world's attention on what was happening in the Northern textile towns.
Manchester and her many social problems loomed large in Disraeli's mind even before he visited the city for the first time, in October 1843, when he spoke at the Athenaeum from the same platform as Charles Dickens and Richard Cobden.
In Sybil, Disraeli touches on many aspects of milltown life, from the dosing of babies with laudanum to keep them drugged and quiet at home while their mothers worked, to the plight of the handloom weavers and the ever-present threat of social unrest.
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 Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
Disraeli was hurt by Peel's rejection and over the next few years he became a harsh critic of the Conservative government.
Disraeli and members of his group argued that the middle class now had too much political power and advocated an alliance between the aristocracy and the working class.
Disraeli now had the opportunity to the develop the ideas that he had expressed when he was leader of the Young England group in the 1840s.
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Benjamin Disraeli, one of the greatest political leaders of England, was born into a family having no regard for politics.
Disraeli had Benjamin baptized into the Church of England when he turned 13 - in spite of his mother's desire for him to continue in Jewry.
Benjamin Disraeli died in April of 1881 in his Mayfair, England home at the age of 77.
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 Benjamin Disraeli : Earl of Beaconsfield   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 - 1881), the son of Isaac D'Israeli, was a British politician and author who entered Parliament in 1837 as Tory MP for Maidstone, after four unsuccessful campaigns for a seat in the House of Commons, the first time as a Radical.
In 1842 Disraeli was amongst the founders of the Young England[?] group.
In Parliament, Disraeli became known for his defense of the Corn Laws, in opposition to fellow Tory Sir Robert Peel's advocacy to repeal the laws, which Disraeli denounced as "laissez-faire capitalism".
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 Disraeli
Disraeli was called "The lion of the Congress." Bismarck said this about him: "Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann." ("The old Jew, that is the man.") Disraeli was instrumental in dissolving the Three Emperors League and preventing Russian expansion in Turkey.
Disraeli and the rest of the cabinet, especially during the Eastern Crisis, did not want war.
Disraeli was also worried because it was appearing that war with Afghanistan was going to happen soon.
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 Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) British politician, novelist, and essayist.
This was attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain, to whom the phrase has also been attributed.
The earliest known use of it is actually that of Leonard H. Courtney, whom Twain might have thought to be referring to Disraeli in the essay in which he declared it.
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 Benjamin Disraeli
Sir Benjamin Disreali was born on the 21st December 1804 in London.
Disreali`s religion was Jewish until 1817 when his father, the writer Isaac D’Israeli, had a disagreement with his synagogue and converted the entire family to Christianity.
Disraeli had fought to keep the Corn Laws as he feared our farmers would suffer.
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Disraeli was born in London, son of an Anglicized Jew, baptized in 1817.
For seventeen years public attention was concentrated on the rivalry between Disraeli and the Liberal leader Gladstone when the nation was governed by these two men.
Disraeli's diplomacy at the Congress of Berlin (1878) helped to preserve European peace after the conflict between Russia and Turkey in the Balkans.
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 BBC - History - Benjamin Disraeli(1804 - 1881)
In 1852 Disraeli became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby's minority government.
When Derby retired in 1868, Disraeli 'climbed to the top of a greasy pole' as the new prime minister.
The polarisation was accentuated by the mutual loathing of Disraeli and Gladstone.
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 HM Revenue & Customs: Taxation: Gladstone vs Disraeli
With the Whigs defeated in 1858, Disraeli returned as Chancellor and in his Budget speech described income tax as ‘unjust, unequal and inquisitorial’ and ‘to continue for a limited time on the distinct understanding that it should ultimately be repealed’.
While Disraeli had gambled that an increased electorate would ensure a Conservative majority, and in 1868 he was Prime Minister, the election of that year saw the Liberals - as the Whigs had become - victorious under Gladstone.
Disraeli won the election, Northcote was his Chancellor and the tax remained.
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 Biography of Benjamin Disraeli
THE RIGHT HONORABLE BENJAMIN DISRAELI was born in London, England, December 21, 1804, and he died in London, April 19, 1881, at the age of seventy-six.
Benjamin Disraeli was most fortunate in his parentage.
Sir Robert Peel, because of his views on the question of handling the trade interests of England, "was assaulted night after night by Disraeli in speeches memorable for their bitterness, their concentrated sarcasm, and studied invective." In 1851 he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, but retired with his party in less than a year.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | The curious case of Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli made no concession whatever to these people, biding his time, cunningly manoeuvring himself into a position of indispensability, all the while taking quiet pleasure in provoking them.
He relies greatly on the letters; Disraeli was certainly one of the greatest correspondents of the 19th century and Hibbert has drawn extensively and divertingly on the great and still incomplete University of Toronto edition.
It is surprising that Disraeli had so little interest in the theatre, because his whole being was that of an actor, one of genius.
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 The Inventor of Modern Conservatism
BENJAMIN DISRAELI--TWICE PRIME minister of Great Britain, romantic novelist, inventor of modern conservatism--was a neocon in the plain sense of the word, a "new conservative" who began his career on the left.
Disraeli produced a definition of conservatism that resolves the problem.
Disraeli the elder (who spelled his name Isaac D'Israeli) was angry with the local synagogue for insisting that he serve as an officer and fining him when he refused.
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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden Of Hughenden --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden Of Hughenden --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden Of Hughenden...
"Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden Of Hughenden." Encyclopædia Britannica.
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 Benjamin Disraeli - bio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Disraeli was fascinated by politics and took his fascination further than just writing about it.
Disraeli once again took on the position of chancellor of Exchequer in 1858 and worked hard for the passage of the Reform Bill of 1867 (A Timeline).
Disraeli was also awarded the title Lord of Beaconsfield and promoted to the House of Lords, before resigning as Prime Minister in 1880 (Benjamin Disraeli).
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 Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli wurde einer schärfsten Kritiker der konservativen Politik Peels.
Disraeli meinte der Adel eine historische Verpflichtung gegenüber der habe und traf sich mit anderen Politikern ähnlichen Bestrebungen.
Disraeli der Königin den Titel Kaiserin von Indien was die Begründung des British Empire fundierte.
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 Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (11 November 1792 - 15 December 1872), born Mary Anne Evans, married Wyndham Lewis and then, after her first husband's death, Benjamin Disraeli.
It was as a reward for his services to the nation that Queen Victoria made Mary Anne a peeress in her own right, Viscountess Beaconsfield, of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, years before Disraeli accepted the honour of becoming Earl of Beaconsfield.
He joked that he had married her for her money but would do it again for love, but the truth is that she was not really wealthy.
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