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Authorised form of nameDisraeli; Benjamin (1804 - 1881); 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Dates1804 - 1881
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth21 December 1804
Place of death19 Curzon Street, London
Date of death19 April 1881
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Hughenden churchyard, Buckinghamshire
ActivityCareer:
Studied law; went abroad and began to write novels; MP for Maidstone (1837-1841); MP for Shrewsbury (1841-1847); MP for Buckinghamshire (1847-1876); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1852, 1858 and 1866); Prime Minister (1868, 1874-1880); Lord Privy Seal (1876-1878)
Honours:
Earl 1876; KG 1878
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/02/1876
RelationshipsSon of Isaac Disraeli of Hughendon Manor, Buckinghamshire, and his wife Mary, daughter of Nathan Basevi of Billiter Square; born Jewish; baptised at St Andrew's Holborn (1817); married Mary Anne; no children
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 30 January 1869, 02 July 1878, 16 December 1879
G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262
Notes:
DNB has birth place as 6 King's Road, Bedford Row (now 22 Theobald's Road); BR gives Adelphi, Westminster
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/49233448
CodeNA6539
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1876/03Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/10/353Letter from Algernon Turnor, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]15 February 1876
MC/10/413Letter from J [Joseph] Dalton Hooker, President of the Royal Society, to [Benjamin Disraeli], 1st Lord of the Treasury19 June 1876
MC/10/412Draft letter from [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society, to [Benjamin Disraeli], 1st Lord of the Treasury19 June 1876
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/70Letter from Montagu Corry, 2 Whitehall Gardens, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]8 July 1877
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
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