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17 unusual facts about Benjamin Disraeli


Aroostook War

While Lord Palmerston and many Conservatives in Parliament denounced the treaty, the British government was pleased, and Conservatives such as Benjamin Disraeli supported it.

Baron Crofton

He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1840 to 1869 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the three Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and in Benjamin Disraeli's first government.

Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal

Lord Dunsandle and Clanconal was Assistant Private Secretary to Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli between 1874 and 1880.

Baron Henniker

He also sat as Member of Parliament for Suffolk East and later held minor office in the Conservative administrations of Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

Bingfield Park

The Park has existed since about 1970 when the Beaconsfield Buildings (built by the Victoria Dwellings Association — Patron Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, the Earl of Beaconsfield.) were purchased by the Greater London Council and demolished.

Caesarism

Benjamin Disraeli was also famously accused of Caesarism in March of 1878 when, in In anticipation of war with Russia, he mobilised British reserves and called Indian troops to Malta.

Criminal Law Amendment Act 1871

It was repealed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative Government in 1875, which legalised picketing with their Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 (this Act was repealed by section 17 of that Act) and Employers and Workmen Act 1875.

David Alroy

British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote the 1833 novel Alroy based on David Alroy and his revolt.

Earl of Longford

He was a Conservative politician and served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1866 to 1868.

Earl of Roden

His grandson, the fourth Earl, Viscount Jocelyn's son served in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1874 to 1880.

Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

The Duchess of Wellington was appointed Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria in 1861 by the Liberal Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, and continued in that role until 1868, serving through the governments of Lord Russell, Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

Employers and Workmen Act 1875

The Employers and Workmen Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict, c 90) was an Act of Parliament during Benjamin Disraeli's second administration.

Francis Sykes

Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1799-1842), husband of Lady Henrietta Sykes, lover of Benjamin Disraeli

Frederick William Hope

Hope married, in 1835, the wealthy Ellen Meredith, who had earlier rejected a proposal of marriage from Benjamin Disraeli.

Irish Parliamentary Party

The Conservatives under Disraeli had been defeated in the election and Gladstone was again Prime Minister.

John Diston Powles

In the mid-1820s he was heavily involved in the promotion of South American mining companies, and enlisted a young Benjamin Disraeli to write pamphlets promoting these mines, particularly those in Chile.

The Woman's Bible

I will so far honor the revising committee of wise men who have given us the best exegesis they can according to their ability, although Disraeli said the last one before he died, contained 150,000 blunders in the Hebrew, and 7,000 in the Greek.


Baron Raglan

His second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

Baron Rothschild

(Benjamin Disraeli, though born into a Jewish family, was a member of the Church of England.)

Baron Skelmersdale

His grandson, the second Baron (the son of the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham), was a Conservative politician and served in the Tory administrations of Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

Bartimaeus Sequence

The novels are set in London in an alternate history, though many countries, cities, events, and people are from actual history (such as Prague, Solomon, the Holy Roman Empire, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, the American Revolution, etc.).

Congress of Berlin

On 4 June, before the Congress opened on 13 June, Prime Minister Lord Beaconsfield had already concluded a secret alliance with the Ottomans against Russia, whereby Britain was allowed to occupy the strategically placed island of Cyprus.

Edward Brydges Willyams

However, when she died in 1863, she gave three-quarters of her fortune to Benjamin Disraeli, a great friend of hers and she was interred next to him in the Disraeli vault at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire.

Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

Lord Hertford was the prototype for the characters of the Marquess of Monmouth in Benjamin Disraeli's 1844 novel, Coningsby and the Marquess of Steyne in William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel, Vanity Fair.

Friendly Societies Act 1875

The Friendly Societies Act 1875 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative Government following the publication of the Royal Commission on Friendly Societies' Final Report.

George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington

He served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1867 to 1868.

George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke

Pembroke served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1875 in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli.

Glasgow City Halls

It was the first hall suitable for large gatherings and concerts to be built in the City and played host to the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth and William Ewart Gladstone.

Henry Baillie

Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second (after d'Orsay declined), when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O'Connell, the son of Daniel O'Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently did not actually occur.

Hughenden Valley

Benjamin Disraeli (later Earl of Beaconsfield) lived at Hughenden Manor, a Georgian mansion, altered by the Disraelis when they purchased it in 1848.

Jemima Blackburn

Her Roshven home became the focus of visits from some of the most celebrated figures of the century, including the Duke of Argyll, Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, Hermann von Helmholtz, John Ruskin, Sir John Everett Millais, Anthony Trollope and Benjamin Disraeli.

Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey

She was immortalized as Zenobia in Disraeli's novel Endymion.

Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet

He advised Benjamin Disraeli to invest in the Suez Canal, which provided a faster shipping route to India.

The Mudlark

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Alec Guinness) realizes that the boy is innocent and pleads for him in Parliament, delivering a speech that indirectly criticizes the Queen for withdrawing from public life.

United Kingdom general election, 1880

At the culmination of the Midlothian campaign, the Liberals, led by the fierce oratory of retired former Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone in attacking the supposedly immoral foreign policy of the Disraeli government, secured one of their largest ever majorities in the election, leaving the Conservatives a distant second.

Winnipeg Route 42

Henderson Highway was named for early Manitoba pioneer Samuel Robert Henderson, Disraeli Freeway was named for Benjamin Disraeli, and Princess Street was named for Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, while King Street was named for John Mark King, a local clergyman, and Donald Street and Smith Street for the 1st Lord Strathcona.