One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

This time Lord Derby ( as he had become ) took office, and to general surprise appointed Disraeli Chancellor of the Exchequer.

When Benjamin Disraeli and others took several nights in the House of Commons to impeach Palmerston's foreign policy, the foreign minister responded to a five-hour speech by Anstey with a five-hour speech of his own, the first of two great speeches in which he laid out a comprehensive defence of his foreign policy and of liberal interventionism more generally.

This arrangement began to change when Benjamin Disraeli took up residency in November 1877.

On 28 February a meeting of the Carlton Club took place, with a majority of the 150 Conservative MPs present supporting Derby and Disraeli.

He was then appointed to the Exchequer when Disraeli took office.

A Conservative minority government led by the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli took office and introduced the Reform Act 1867 which almost doubled the electorate, giving the vote even to working men.

In 1877 Queen Victoria took the title of Empress of India on the advice of Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli.

" Disraeli took the opportunity to remove Beresford, who was briefly succeeded as whip by William Forbes Mackenzie.

Like most of Disraeli's novels, Endymion is a romance, although Disraeli took the unusual step of setting it between 1819 and 1859.

The Tories under Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli took office, and the new government decided to " dish the Whigs " and " take a leap in the dark " to take the credit for the reform.

* Endymion ( Disraeli ), an 1880 novel

Samuel Warren attacked him as Venom Tuft in Ten Thousand a Year ; and Disraeli aimed at him partially in Ste Barbe ( in Endymion ), though the satire here was directed primarily against Thackeray.

Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

" Further, at the time Gallomania was published, Disraeli was in fact electioneering in High Wycombe in the Radical interest.

A pamphlet he published in September 1876, Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, attacked the Disraeli government for its indifference to the Ottoman Empire's violent repression of the Bulgarian April uprising.

One nation conservatism was first conceived by the Conservative British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who presented his political philosophy in two novels – Sybil, Or The Two Nations ( 1845 ) and Coningsby – published in 1845 and 1844 respectively.

In 2006, Conservative Member of Parliament Andrew Tyrie published a pamphlet which claimed that Cameron was following the one nationist path of Disraeli.

* Tancred ( novel ), a novel published in 1847 by Benjamin Disraeli

* This article incorporates text from the article the Disraeli family by Lucien Wolf, published in the Transactions and Miscellanies of The Jewish Historical Society of England, vol 5, pp. 202 – 218 ( 1902 – 5 ), a publication now also in the public domain.

It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death.

In January 1939 the National Book Club published a new English edition of Mein Kampf, for which Bryant wrote a foreword praising Hitler ( with reservations: he denounced Nazi persecution of Jews ) and comparing him to Benjamin Disraeli.

William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) was the Liberal counterpart to Disraeli, serving as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

On the return of the Conservatives to power in 1874 he became Postmaster-General under Disraeli, and was made GCB on his retirement in 1880.

He again held office under Disraeli as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1876 to 1880.

In the Victorian era the town was the home constituency of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and then again from 1874 until 1880 ( in fact his home, Hughenden Manor is in the nearby town of High Wycombe ).

Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister ( 1868 and 1874 – 1880, and Earl of Beaconsfield 1876 ), whose father rented a house at nearby Bradenham, purchased the manor in 1848 with the help of a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to almost £ 1, 500, 000 today ) from Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield, because as leader of the Conservative Party " it was essential to represent a county ," and county members had to be landowners.

In 1880 he resigned his Viceroyality simultaneously with the Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and was created Earl of Lytton, in the County of Derby, and Viscount Knebworth, of Knebworth in the County of Hertford.

His grandson, the fourth Earl, 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.

His son, the fourth Viscount, was an Irish Representative Peer from 1862 to 1886 and served as a government whip from 1866 to 1868 and from 1874 to 1880 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

His son, the third Baronet, also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury and South Devonshire and served under Benjamin Disraeli as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1874 to 1880.

However, despite the new invasion, the British Prime Minister Disraeli and his party would lose the 1880 election.

He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1874 to 1878 and as Vice-President of the Committee on Education from 1878 to 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1878.

The following year he was appointed Master of the Buckhounds under Disraeli, and continued in this post until the government fell in 1880.

He was then briefly Paymaster General under Disraeli ( then known as the Earl of Beaconsfield ) in 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year.

He was a close friend and subordinate of Benjamin Disraeli and served as the Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1867 to 1868 and Governor of Madras from 1875 to 1880.

He held office under the Earl of Derby as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1859 and under the Benjamin Disraeli as Lord Privy Seal between 1878 and 1880.

It was created in 1880 for Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, a long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament and old friend of Benjamin Disraeli.

He once again held office under Disraeli as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1874 to 1880 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1874.

He again served under Disraeli as Master of the Horse between 1874 and 1880 and held the same office from 1885 to 1886 in Lord Salisbury's first administration.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

After producing a Vindication of the English Constitution, and some political pamphlets, Disraeli followed up Vivian Grey with a series of novels, The Young Duke ( 1831 ), Contarini Fleming ( 1832 ), Alroy ( 1833 ), Venetia and Henrietta Temple ( 1837 ).

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804 – 1881 ), prime minister 1868 and 1874-80, remains an iconic hero of the Conservative Party.

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents ( including Queen Victoria, who strongly favoured Disraeli ), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

As a result, the Treaty of Berlin ( 1878 ), under the supervision of Otto von Bismarck of the German empire and Benjamin Disraeli of Britain, revised the earlier treaty, and scaled back the proposed Bulgarian state.

Previous Chancellors have opted for whisky ( Kenneth Clarke ), gin and tonic ( Geoffrey Howe ), brandy and water ( Benjamin Disraeli ), spritzer ( Nigel Lawson ) and sherry and beaten egg ( William Gladstone ).

In the phrase " One-nation Tory " of " one-nation Toryism " it originated with Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-1881 ), who served as the chief Conservative spokesman and Prime Minister after 1852.

The Green Goddess was filmed in 1929 and completed before Disraeli ( 1929 ), but was held out of release until later at the request of George Arliss because he felt the other film was a better vehicle for his talkie debut.

Following the death of the 7th earl in 1871, the Estate passed to his widowed mother, Anne Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Chesterfield ( 1802 – 1885 ), whose good friend, Benjamin Disraeli, paid frequent visits to Bretby.

* Lothair ( novel ), a novel by Benjamin Disraeli

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