Disraeli was to have been Home Secretary, with Stanley ( becoming the Earl of Derby later that year ) as Prime Minister.

Robert Ferrers, Earl of Derby, was singled out in particular for his central involvement in the rebellion, and for him the multiple was seven rather than five.

In January Elizabeth married William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

Accordingly, the Tory / Conservative Party leader the Earl of Derby was asked to form a " minority government.

However, the Earl of Derby appointed Benjamin Disraeli as the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the minority government.

This brought an end to the Russell Whig government and set the stage for a general election in July 1852 which eventually brought the Conservatives to power in a minority government under the Earl of Derby.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

* 1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.

The original principal alternative candidate was Francis Bacon, but by the beginning of the twentieth century other candidates, typically aristocrats, were put forward, most notably Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

This argument had earlier been used by supporters of the Earl of Rutland and the Earl of Derby as authorship candidates, both of whom had also travelled on the continent of Europe.

Literary scholars say that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship, and that catalogues of similarities between incidents in the plays and the life of an aristocrat are flawed as arguments because similar lists have been drawn up for many competing candidates, such as Francis Bacon and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

Grove's Dictionary reports the earliest use of the word ' recorder ' was in the household of the Earl of Derby ( later to become King Henry IV ) in 1388: fistula nomine Recordour.

' before falling have been that during the battle Richard was abandoned by Baron Stanley ( made Earl of Derby in October ), Sir William Stanley, and Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.

* Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* October 23 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1799 )

* September – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby ( died 1594 )

* April 16 – Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby is found poisoned.

* September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward ( b. 1531 )

* September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby ( b. 1531 )

* March 29 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1869 )

* July 29 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby ( b. 1435 )

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, ( 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881 ) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

* 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1770 )

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1852-1855

* 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

As Prime Minister of the Peelite / Whig coalition government, the Earl of Aberdeen eventually led Britain into war on the side of the French / Ottomans against the Russian Empire.

He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8: 30 am Indian Standard Time | IST on 15 August 1947

* 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1805 )

* 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1929 )

* 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1737 )

These visits enabled him to meet and take the measure of his adversaries Napoleon III, and the British Prime Minister Palmerston and Foreign Secretary Earl Russell, and also of the British Conservative politician Disraeli, later to be Prime Minister in the 1870s – who later claimed to have said of Bismarck's visit " Be careful of that man – he means every word he says ".

Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote in 1713 about " those who are now commonly called Prime Minister among us ", referring to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, Queen Anne's Lord Treasurers and chief ministers.

Consequently, her chief ministers Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, who were called " Prime Minister " by some, had difficulty executing policy in the face of a hostile Parliament.

During Britain's participation in the Seven Years War, for example, the powers of government were divided equally between the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, leading to them both alternatively being described as Prime Minister.

* Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British Prime Minister, 1742 – 1743, who gave his name to many of the places called Wilmington.

* July 2 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* December 4 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1770 )

* The Royal Colony of North Carolina establishes a new county from the eastern portion of Granville County and names it Bute County for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain.