Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Conservative statesman mb-artist Sutton_Nicholls Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge

Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge can be seen in the background

a very ill man and so his primary concern was to preserve his office for his young son

in some quarters

View of Tattersall's horse sale yard at Hyde Park Corner

a 19th-century copy from Speed's Map of England

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Conservative statesman mb-artist Sutton_Nicholls Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo BridgeBenjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Conservative statesman, c1890. 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. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.