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  Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (21 December 1804 19 April 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure.
In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.
Benjamin was the second child and eldest son of Isaac D'Israeli and Maria Basevi.
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 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 – April 19, 1881) was a British statesman and author.
He was raised to the peerage as Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876, and was a Knight of the Garter.
Disraeli was a staunch supporter of Lionel de Rothschild's right to take a seat when he was elected to the House of Commons but not allowed to serve there.
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 Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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 succeeded the earl of Derby as prime minister in 1868 but lost the office to Gladstone in the same year.
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 (December 21, 1804 - April 19, 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.
Disraeli served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1858 and 1867-68 Tory governments.
Mark Twain claimed that Disraeli came up with the phrase, "Lies, damned lies, and statistics", but it is unclear if this is actually one of that author's inventions (it was first popularized in Twain's autobiography, though attributed to Disraeli there); most who try to pin it down do award it to the prime minister.
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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 became chancellor of the Exchequer once more, and on March 26 brought in his India Bill, which "laid down the principles on which the great subcontinent was to be governed for 60 years." The following year his Reform Bill, redolent of what John Bright called "fancy franchises," was defeated.
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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 Second Disraeli ministry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1868, 1874-1880.
The Earl of Beaconsfield served as both First Lord of the Treasury and Lord Privy Seal from August of 1876 to April of 1878.
The Marquess of Salisbury succeeds the Earl of Derby as Foreign Secretary.
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC (21 December, 1804 19 April, 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure.
The elder D'Israeli (Benjamin apparently changed the spelling in the 1820s) himself was content to remain outside organized religion.
Disraeli's involvement in the passing of the Second Reform Act 1867 is largely seen as a cyncial example of political opportunism.
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 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - credit-report-company.info
The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC (21 December, 1804 – 19 April, 1881) was a British statesman and literary figure.
Disraeli's biographers agree that Vivian Grey was a thinly-veiled re-telling of the affair of the Representative, and it proved very popular on its release, although it also caused much offence within the Tory literary world when Disrael's authorship was discovered.
As Disraeli remarked, "I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole." However, the Conservatives were still a minority in the House of Commons, and the enaction of the Reform Bill required the calling of new election.
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 Biography of Benjamin Disraeli | Life of Benjamin Disraeli
The leader of the Conservative party, he served as prime minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880.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's maternal grandfather was president of the Jewish Board of Deputies in London.Isaac D'Israeli, when elected warden of the Bevis Marks Synagogue, resigned from the congregation rather than pay the fee of £40 entailed upon refusal of office.
In 1876 Disraeli became a member of the House of Lords as the 1st (and only) Earl of Beaconsfield.In 1880 Gladstone and the Liberals returned to power.
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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, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Enpsychlopedia
}} Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC (21 December, 1804 – 19 April, 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure.
From 1852 onwards Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader (if not founder) of the Liberal Party.
Disraeli Street in Epsom, Auckland is in an affluent, desirable residential area.
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 Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Vicipéid
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Vicipéid
Polaiteoir Briotanach ab ea Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 Nollaig, 1804 – 19 Aibreán, 1881).
Ghlac Disraeli páirt i rialtas na Ríochta Aontaithe ar feadh triocha bliaina, le dhá téarmaí mar phríomh-aire.
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 Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield: Early Career
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield: Early Career
Disraeli was of Jewish ancestry, but his father, the literary critic Isaac
He was chancellor of the exchequer in the brief governments of the earl of
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Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield, British And Irish History, Biographies
Disraeli was of Jewish ancestry, but his father, the literary critic Isaac D'Israeli, had him baptized (1817).
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While Disraeli had the advantage of Queen Victoria's support, Gladstone was a reformer at heart, earning great praise from fellow reformers.
Disraeli's father was literary critic and historian Isaac D'Israeli who, though Jewish, had Benjamin baptised and raised in the Church of England.
Said in response to a speech by William Gladstone in the House of Commons who called a public park fit only for lunatics and Jews.
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 Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 1ST EARL OF [Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st earl of] see Disraeli, Benjamin.
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 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
English statesman and author (son of Isaac D'Israeli)
The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.
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31), Disraeli returned to London, where he soon became prominent in society.
The government's purchase (1875) of the controlling share of Suez Canal stock from the bankrupt khedive of Egypt strengthened British Mediterranean interests, which were jealously guarded in the diplomacy during and after the Russo-Turkish War (1877
He forced Russia to submit the Treaty of San Stefano to the Congress of Berlin (1878) and there secured the treaty revisions that greatly reduced Russian power in the Balkans (see
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