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Benjamin Disraeli

prime minister of United Kingdom
Also known as: Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden, Dizzy(Show More)
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Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake
Provost, Queen's College, University of Oxford, 1968ā€“87. Author of The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher and others.
Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake
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Benjamin Disraeli (born December 21, 1804, London, Englandā€”died April 19, 1881, London) was a British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874ā€“80) and who provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. Disraeli was of Italian-Jewish descent, the eldest son and second child of Isaac Dā€™Israeli and Maria Basevi. The most important event in Disraeliā€™s boyhood was his fatherā€™s quarrel in 1813 with the synagogue of Bevis...

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