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Benjamin Disraeli

British statesman (1804–1881)

  • Fame76.1
  • Momentum1.3
  • Wikipedia64.9K
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Lived 1804–1881, aged 77
PoliticiansPolitician
  • Wikipedia
    93 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1804–1881
    Aged 77
  • Awards
    2
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

The only Jewish-born prime minister Britain ever had — twice over. He rebuilt the Conservative Party around empire and cross-class appeal, sparred for decades with Gladstone, and turned European diplomacy at the Congress of Berlin into a personal triumph that made him a continental statesman.

Biography

About

Born in Bloomsbury in 1804, Disraeli became Anglican at twelve after his father left Judaism over a synagogue dispute. He entered the Commons in 1837 and rose by breaking with Prime Minister Robert Peel over the Corn Laws in 1846, making himself a major party figure. Through the 1850s and 1860s he served as Chancellor and Commons leader under Lord Derby, then took the premiership briefly in 1868 before losing the election. He won a majority in 1874 and governed through the Eastern question: he bought Britain into the Suez Canal, then at the 1878 Congress of Berlin secured Balkan peace on terms…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli
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Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845).
Benjamin Disraeli
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
— Popanilla (1827) Ch. 7 referring to the Motto of "Vraibleusia".
Benjamin Disraeli
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[I]n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate.
— Letter to Isaac Disraeli (2 September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli,
Benjamin Disraeli
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Verona is full of pictures which have never been painted. Every step excites emotion and gives rise to unaffected reflection.
— Letter to Isaac Disraeli (September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli,
Benjamin Disraeli
said
The microcosm of a public school.
— Book I, Chapter 2
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Momentum1.3
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    database · pantheon.world
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