Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, English statesman and literary figure, (1893).Artist: Mayall

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, English statesman and literary figure, (1893). Disraeli (1804-1881) was twice Prime Minister of Britain, first in 1868 and then again between 1874 and 1880. Under his Conservative government, the British Empire expanded and in 1876 he conferred on Queen Victoria the title Empress of India. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie, (London, 1893).

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