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Benjamin Disraeli, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG PC]] FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister. Despite the fact that he converted to Anglicanism in his teen years, he remains to date Britain's only ethnically Jewish Prime Minister. (His conversion was not any great show of faith or any kind of cynical move; his father got in a nasty tiff at his synagogue and had his whole family baptised [=CoE=] out of spite when young Benjamin was about 12.) He played a key role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846. Despite this he was not very well liked by the other major party leaders at the time but he kept working at it and was finally welcomed in fully in the 1860s. He had a life long [[ArchEnemy rivalry]] with UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, the later head of the Liberal party and a later Prime Minister. In order to help with this he became a close friend of Queen Victoria (he pushed through legislation that made her the Empress of India, putting her on the top tier of European royalty with Tsar Nicholas II and ensuring that she would not be outranked by her daughter when she married German Emperor Frederick III, or by the Indian nobles who still ran parts of India), which also caused her hatred for Gladstone.
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Benjamin Disraeli, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG PC]] FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister. Despite the fact that he converted to Anglicanism in his teen years, he remains to date Britain's only ethnically Jewish Prime Minister. (His conversion was not any great show of faith or any kind of cynical move; his father got in a nasty tiff at his synagogue and had his whole family baptised [=CoE=] out of spite when young Benjamin was about 12.) He played a key role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846. Despite this he was not very well liked by the other major party leaders at the time but he kept working at it and was finally welcomed in fully in the 1860s. He had a life long [[ArchEnemy rivalry]] with UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, the later head of the Liberal party and a later Prime Minister. In fact, a popular saying of the time was "No two men ever loved England more, or each other less," which pretty well sums up their relationship. In order to help with this he became a close friend of Queen Victoria (he pushed through legislation that made her the Empress of India, putting her on the top tier of European royalty with Tsar Nicholas II and ensuring that she would not be outranked by her daughter when she married German Emperor Frederick III, or by the Indian nobles who still ran parts of India), which also caused her hatred for Gladstone.
