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    Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and...
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    peeress and society figure who was the wife of the British statesman Benjamin Disraeli. Born in Brampford Speke, near Exeter in Devon, the only daughter...
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    Benjamin Disraeli's tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland began when Queen Victoria first invited him to form a...
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  • Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He...
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    obtained a minority of seats in the House of Commons. In the wake of Benjamin Disraeli's victory, Gladstone retired from the leadership of the Liberal party...
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    and ended in 1868 was led by Lord Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons. Lord Derby became prime minister for the...
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    Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons. After the collapse of Lord Palmerston's first...
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  • Never complain, never explain (category Benjamin Disraeli)
    originated with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli. It was attributed to Disraeli by John Morley in 1903, as quoted in Morley's Life...
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    greatest picture Disraeli". His performance as British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The story...
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    Benjamin Disraeli was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time by Queen Victoria after William Ewart Gladstone's government was...
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  • Disraeli Gears is the second studio album by the British rock band Cream. It was produced by Felix Pappalardi and released on Reaction Records. The album...
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    1848–1849 Jointly Benjamin Disraeli, the Marquess of Granby, and John Charles Herries: 1849–1852, elected at a party meeting () Benjamin Disraeli: 1852 – 21...
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    favour of votes for women. Derby resigned in 1868, to be replaced by Benjamin Disraeli, who charmed Victoria. "Everyone likes flattery," he said, "and when...
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    British writer, scholar and the father of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. He is best known for his essays and his associations with other men...
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    Thirteen prime ministers have served two terms: Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Ramsay MacDonald, The Viscount Melbourne, The Duke of Newcastle,...
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    February 1819 – 25 November 1894) was a British peeress. Prime minister Benjamin Disraeli was her admirer and he wrote her over 1,000 letters. Bridgeman was...
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    for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor of any category...
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    the Conservative Party with him (including, among others, the young Benjamin Disraeli). He thereafter led the protectionist faction of the Conservative...
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    1 January 1801. The first to use the title in an official act was Benjamin Disraeli who signed the 1878 Treaty of Berlin as "Prime Minister of Her Britannic...
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    British philanthropist and public servant, best known for serving as Benjamin Disraeli's private secretary from 1866 until the latter's death in 1881. Born...
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    Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816) was an Italian-born English merchant and financier, the grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, Earl...
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  • English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew...
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  • One-nation conservatism (category Benjamin Disraeli)
    business class. The describing phrase 'one-nation Tory' originated with Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), who served as the chief Conservative spokesman and became...
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    Earl of Beaconsfield (category Benjamin Disraeli)
    created in 1876 for Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, a favourite of Queen Victoria. Victoria favoured Disraeli's Tory policies over those of his Liberal...
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  • Look up Disraeli in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) was a British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister...
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    Lies, damned lies, and statistics (category Benjamin Disraeli)
    attributed it to the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances...
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    Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in...
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    with the problem of how to produce a credible leader, who was not Benjamin Disraeli. The first attempt to square the circle was made in February 1848...
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    Steward of the Household from 1866 to 1867, and under Derby and later Benjamin Disraeli as Lord President of the Council—with a seat in the cabinet—from 1867...
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    for a matter of months in 1852. Lord Derby was Prime Minister and Benjamin Disraeli served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. It marked the first time the...
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