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Benjamin Disraeli

1804 - 1881

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Disraeli has received more than 6,285,096 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Benjamin Disraeli is the 1,054th most popular politician (down from 926th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 232nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Politician.

Benjamin Disraeli was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1868 to 1874 and again from 1880 to 1885. He was the first and only British Prime Minister to have been born Jewish.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Benjamin Disraeli ranks 1,054 out of 19,576. Before him are Lee Myung-bak, Abijah of Judah, Feodor III of Russia, Gough Whitlam, Muhammad XII of Granada, and Decebalus. After him are Louis IV of France, Trygve Lie, Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor Yao, Alfonso VI of León and Castile, and As-Saffah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Benjamin Disraeli ranks 6. Before him are Franklin Pierce, George Sand, Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Strauss I, and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte. After him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, and Mikhail Glinka. Among people deceased in 1881, Benjamin Disraeli ranks 5. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander II of Russia, Modest Mussorgsky, and James A. Garfield. After him are Billy the Kid, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Jenny von Westphalen, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, and Auguste Mariette.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli ranks 235 out of 8,785. Before him are Stan Laurel (1890), Clement Attlee (1883), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Godwinson (1022), Syd Barrett (1946), and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900). After him are William Wordsworth (1770), John Law (1671), Edward the Black Prince (1330), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), and Ken Miles (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli ranks 47. Before him are Charles II of England (1630), Henry I of England (1068), Edward the Elder (871), Clement Attlee (1883), Harold Godwinson (1022), and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900). After him are James II of England (1633), David Lloyd George (1863), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), Ælfweard of Wessex (904), Liz Truss (1975), and Richard Cromwell (1626).

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