1-216-838 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, English statesman and literary figure, 1881. The statue of Disraeli in Westminster Abbey. 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 Alexander Charles Ewald's The Right Hon Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, and His Times, William Mackenzie, (London, 1881).