Authorised form of name | Disraeli; Benjamin (1804 - 1881); 1st Earl of Beaconsfield |
Dates | 1804 - 1881 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | London, England |
Date of birth | 21 December 1804 |
Place of death | 19 Curzon Street, London |
Date of death | 19 April 1881 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Hughenden churchyard, Buckinghamshire |
Activity | Career: 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
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 10/02/1876 |
Relationships | Son 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 |
Source | Sources: 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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/49233448 |
Code | NA6539 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1876/03 | Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
MC/10/353 | Letter from Algernon Turnor, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 15 February 1876 |
MC/10/413 | Letter from J [Joseph] Dalton Hooker, President of the Royal Society, to [Benjamin Disraeli], 1st Lord of the Treasury | 19 June 1876 |
MC/10/412 | Draft letter from [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society, to [Benjamin Disraeli], 1st Lord of the Treasury | 19 June 1876 |
MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
MC/11/70 | Letter from Montagu Corry, 2 Whitehall Gardens, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 8 July 1877 |
MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |