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Beaconsfield is the name of a town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

For most of his parliamentary career, Disraeli served as a member for Buckinghamshire.

He owned an estate, Hughenden Manor, in the nearby town of High Wycombe, but never lived in Beaconsfield.

His choice of title might have been partly influenced by the fact that in 1794 the conservative political philosopher and parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whom Disraeli admired, had turned down King George III's offer to raise him to the peerage as Lord Beaconsfield.