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Biography of Benjamin Disraeli
Name: Benjamin Disraeli
Birth Date: December 21, 1804
Death Date: April 19, 1881
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, prime minister
Benjamin Disraeli
The English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), supported imperialism while opposing free trade. 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. (The family had originally gone to Italy from the Levant.) Disraeli's mother, whom he appears to have disliked, was a Basevi, from a Jewish family that fled Spain after 1492, settling first in Italy and at the end of the 17th century in England. 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. He had his four children baptized in the Church …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the acts passed during Disraeli's premiership were the 1874 and 1878 Factory Acts and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1878. 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. Disraeli retired to Hughenden, where he wrote Endymion and began another novel, Falconet. He died of bronchitis on April 19, 1881, and was buried next to his wife. His last recorded words were, "I had rather live but am not afraid to die." Further Reading The standard biography of Disraeli is William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Disraeli (6 vols., 1911-1920; rev. ed., 2 vols., 1929). Robert Blake, Disraeli (1966), is also recommended. Cecil Roth, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1952), covers well the Jewish aspects of his life. B. R. Jerman, The Young Disraeli (1960), is a study of his career until 1837. See also C. C. Somervell, Disraeli and Gladstone (1925).
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