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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.
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.
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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 MSN Encarta - Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli was born in London and educated at private schools in Blackheath and Walthamstow.
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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 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Disraeli's father was literary critic and historian Isaac D'Israeli who, though Jewish, had Benjamin baptised and raised in the Church of England.
Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Whig and Radical, Disraeli was a progressive Tory by the time he won a seat in the the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone.
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
George Arliss plays the role of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874-80) and who provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism.
Disraeli is mortified when he does not receive an office in the Cabinet.
As lieutenant to Lord George Bentinck, the nominal leader of the rebels, Disraeli consolidates the opposition to Peel.
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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 - 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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 Disraeli timeline
Disraeli, who was desperate for office, wrote to Peel but was not made a member of the government.
Disraeli's second ministry passed a spate of social legislation and became known as the "Ministry of Sewage".
Disraeli and Salisbury were invested with the Order of the Garter on their return to London.
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 The History Channel - Disraeli
Disraeli is generally associated with patriotism, with pride in the British Empire, with the protection of traditional institutions like the monarchy and the Church of England, and with a 'one nation' Toryism which led him to foster social reforms.
Disraeli was Jewish by race and the son of a literary man. He did not have the standard public school and Oxbridge education of a Tory politician.
Disraeli wanted responsible aristocrats to be protective towards their inferiors: he did not think they should be forced by act of parliament to behave well.
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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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 Benjamin Disraeli
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.
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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 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Books | 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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 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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 BBC - History - Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden (1804 - 1881)
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden (1804 - 1881)
In 1852 Disraeli became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby's minority government.
The polarisation was accentuated by the mutual loathing of Disraeli and Gladstone.
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 Paw Prints: The Histsory of Benjamin Disraeli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benjamin Disraeli, one of the greatest political leaders of England, was born into a family having no regard for politics.
D'Israeli 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.
In 1868, Disraeli became prime minister, but he soon lost the position to William Gladstone, the leader of the Liberal Party due to a vote called by the queen in September of 1868.
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 Benjamin_Disraeli,_1st_Earl_of_Beaconsfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While Disraeli had the advantage of Queen Victoria's support, Gladstone was a reformer at heart, earning great praise from fellow reformers.
Disraeli descended from Portuguese Sephardic Jews from both his mother's and his father's side.
Disraeli would lose the fight — the repeal of the Corn Laws came at great political cost to the split Tory party.
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 Bismarck & Disraeli paper
Disraeli's novels concerned themselves with the great contemporary issues of his time; issues such as Parliamentary Reform, the Chartist Movement, Utilitarianism, the impact of science upon society, and the effects of the Industrial Revolution were the burning topics which English readers devoured.
Disraeli and a large number of the Tories refused follow Peel as the Government abandoned their previous policy of Protection in favor of Free Trade; Disraeli portrayed the party as having been "betrayed and deserted"50 by the Peel Ministry.
Disraeli's practical application of this policy came when, in 1878, Russian designs on European Turkey, the Balkan Peninsula, and her advances toward the Mediterranean were regarded by Disraeli as a threat to the British Empire and its communications.
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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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 Disraeli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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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 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...
Widely considered the founder of British imperialism, Disraeli was largely responsible for securing British control of the Suez Canal and India.
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 Benjamin Disraeli
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.
For 6 years Disraeli was leader of the opposition to Wiliam Gladstone.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Disraeli (Lost Treasures Series)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of England (1868 and 1874-80), and Conservative leader, was one of the greatest and most colorful political figures in British history.
Disraeli was probably one of the most interesting people to be prime minister (after perhaps Churchill and Walpole) and Blake's book shows the reader how he did it.
Disraeli's Jewish origins, his misunderstanding of them and yet his pride in defending them are also part of the story of this sensitive, insightful and supremely 'romantic' political leader.
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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.
In the following year, Disraeli married the widow of his late colleague, who, in 1868, was elevated to the peerage with the title of Viscountess Beaconsfield.
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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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Benjamin Disraeli
Known as a dandy, a novelist, a brilliant debator and England's first and only Jewish prime minister, Disraeli is best remembered for bringing India and the Suez Canal under control of the crown.
When Peel's government feel, Disraeli gradually became known as the leader of the Conservatives in the Commons.
Korea becomes a nation, Colorado a state, and Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield.
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 "Disraeli" (1978) (mini)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of the better series, I recall, told the story of the life, loves and political triumphs of Benjamin Disraeli; and I have often longed to see it again, knowing full well it went the way of many old films introduced by Alistaire Cooke in the good old days.
Even when he decided that marriage with a rich widow considerably older than himself was the only way to pay his debts, he spent most of the rest of his life as the happiest of married men.
When Disraeli wanted to shame the House for their bigotry, he appealed to them as a Christian (he had converted long before that) and reminded them that Rothchild was of the same religion as Christ.
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