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Bookmark or Share- Benjamin Disraeli - WikipediaBenjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach.
- Benjamin Disraeli - Victorian Literature - Oxford BibliographiesBenjamin Disraeli (b. 1804–d. 1881) is unique among Victorian novelists in that, outside of specialists in Victorian literature, he is much better known as a politician and statesman (he was leader of the Conservative Party, and twice prime minister) than as a novelist.
- Benjamin Disraeli | History TodayChancellor of the exchequer three times (1852, 1855, 1866), he was prime minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. Concerned with social reform and imperialism, he secured a controlling interest in the Suez Canal, made Queen Victoria empress of India and acquired the right to occupy Cyprus.
- Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield summary | BritannicaBenjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, (born Dec. 21, 1804, London, Eng.—died April 19, 1881, London), British politician and author who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80). Of Italian-Jewish descent, he was baptized a Christian as a child, which enabled his future career, because until 1858, practitioners of Judaism were excluded ...
- Benjamin Disraeli - British PM, Conservative Leader | BritannicaBenjamin Disraeli - British PM, Conservative Leader: The loyalty of most of the Conservative former ministers to Peel and the death of Bentinck made Disraeli indisputably the leader of the opposition in the Commons.
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