Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman

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Alternative name(s):	Beaconsfield, Earl (Also known as)
Surname:	Disraeli
Forenames:	Benjamin
Gender:	Male
Date:	1804-1881
Title:	Earl of Beaconsfield
History:	Created First Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. Twice Prime Minister (Conservative): Feb-Dec 1868 and Feb 1874-Apr 1880. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1852, 1858-1859 and 1866-1868. Responsible for purchasing the Khedive's shares in the Suez Canal for Britain.
Biography:	ODNB link for Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275657 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P155320 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Benjamin Disraeli

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1881-1898: BEACONSFIELD, The Rt Hon Benjamin Disraeli Earl of	The National Archives, Kew	IR 59/147
2	16 Mar.1874: To Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield.	The National Archives, Kew	FO 918/5
3	22 Dec.1874: Copies of appreciations by Gladstone and Disraeli of Theodore Martin's Life of the...	The National Archives, Kew	FO 918/5
4	1 July 1876, 4 June 1878: From Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield.	The National Archives, Kew	FO 918/5
5	literary MSS	See information in published source		See Index of English literary MSS vol 4 1800-1900
6	1681-1928: corresp, papers, political papers, diaries, literary MSS	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dep. Hughenden	NRA 842 Disraeli See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
7	1832: MS of Contarini Fleming	Royal Archives		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
8	1832-33: MS of 'The rise of Iskander'	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 36677	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9	1835-80: corresp	Queen's University Archives		NRA 23298 Disraeli Project See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories , suppl 1976
10	1830-80: letters and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 59887
11	1877-81: corresp with Queen Victoria	Royal Archives		See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
12	1880-81: corresp with secretary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58210
13	1838-78: household accounts	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dep. Hughenden 314/1-10	See Accessions to Repositories 1982
14	c1826: MS of Vivian Grey (5 vols)	Harvard University: Houghton Library	MS Eng 840	NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
15	prefaces to Alroy and Contarini Fleming	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Forster Collection	NRA 38887 Forster
16	MS of Ixion in Heaven, part 1	The King's School, Canterbury	WALPOLE	NRA 15260
17	c1855-62: letters rel to Francis Villiers	The London Archives: City of London		See Accessions to Repositories 1990
18	1874: letters to Lord Abercorn	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D623; T2541	NRA 15790 Hamilton
19	1867-74: corresp with Lord Ampthill	The National Archives	FO918/5/1-10	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
20	corresp with Benjamin Austen	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 45908
21	1846: letter to Thomas Bailey (solicitor)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 62711
22	1851-73: letters to Thomas Baring	Baring Archive	NP7/1/60-74, 168, 171-2	NRA 41369 Northbrook
23	1859-60: corresp with 5th and 6th Earls Beauchamp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 61892
24	1832-37: corresp, mainly with William Beckford	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Beckford	NRA 22980 Beckford
25	1850-81: corresp with Earls of Bradford and Countess of Chesterfield	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D 1287	NRA 430 Bridgeman See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [10a]
26	1874-80: corresp with Sir Henry Brand	Parliamentary Archives	BRA	NRA 6114
27	1848-51: (copies) letters to George Lathom Browne, barrister	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 15
28	1875-81: letters (10) to Lord and Lady Cadogan	Parliamentary Archives	(H.C.163) CAD/178-252 passim	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
29	1866-1884: letters to Lord Cairns	The National Archives	PRO 30/51/1
30	1858-80: corresp with Lord Carnarvon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 60763-64
31	c1866-79: corresp with Sir Edwin Chadwick	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	CHADWICK	NRA 21653 Chadwick
32	1862-79: corresp with Duke and Duchess of Cleveland	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/C502/7	NRA 25095
33	1858-68: corresp with Lord Cottesloe	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/FR	NRA 15283 Fremantle
34	1867-80: letters to Lord Cranbrook	Suffolk Archives - Ipswich	HA43	NRA 1182 Gathorne-Hardy
35	1871-80: corresp with Lord Cross	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51265
36	1833-65: letters [39] to Culverwell and SH Walpole	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1126
37	1848-74: letters to John Thadeus Delane	News UK Archive		NRA 19359 The Times
38	1848-73: letters (13) to John Evelyn Denison	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Os	NRA 205 Denison
39	1843-69: letters to 14th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, boxes 145-6	NRA 20084
40	1849-78: corresp with 15th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
41	1848-57: letters to Sir Henry Drummond; corresp with Duke of Northumberland	Alnwick Castle		NRA 836 Percy
42	1860-79: letters to Sir Henry Edwards	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale	misc 168	NRA 21161 Calderdale misc
43	1862-78: letters (26) to Lady Forester (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1050
44	1868-74: letters (15) to Sir Charles Fremantle	Jewish Museum, London (fomerly Finchley)	MS 4	NRA 30955
45	1876-80: letters to Viscount Galway	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ga	NRA 6741
46	1857-80: corresp with Sir Thomas Gladstone (12 items)	Gladstone's Library	Glynne-Gladstone MSS 403	NRA 14174 Gladstone
47	1852-78: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44374-652 passim
48	letters (14) to Grenville family	Huntington Library		See Guide to British MSS, 1982
49	1856-68: corresp with Charles Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
50	1835-77: corresp with 3rd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
51	1858-76: corresp with Sir William Harcourt	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Harcourt	NRA 3679
52	letters (20) to Lord Harrowby	Harrowby Manuscripts Trust		NRA 1561 Ryder
53	1846-51: corresp with John Charles Herries	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 57409	NRA 4798
54	1868-81: corresp with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach	Gloucestershire Archives	D2440	NRA 3526
55	1845-65: letters (12) to Lord Houghton	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	Houghton 2:59-71	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
56	1848-68: letters to Sir William Jolliffe	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD/HY	NRA 3945 Jolliffe
57	1877-78: corresp with Sir Austen Layard	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 39130-37
58	c1850-60: letters (27) to Lady Londonderry	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3030	NRA 12865 Stewart
59	1837-64: corresp with Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	D/LO/C530; Additional Corresp	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
60	1848-54: letters (32) to 3rd Marquis of Londonderry	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	Londonderry Papers: Additional Corresp. file 1-5	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
61	1870-78: corresp with Longmans	University of Reading: Special Collections		See Guide 1983
62	1830-63: corresp with 1st Baron Lytton	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	DE/K	NRA 4598
63	1873-88: corresp with 1st Earl of Lytton	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	DE/K	NRA 4598
64	1852-79: corresp with Lord John Manners	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	My, Bd	NRA 10280
65	1867-80: letters to Duke of Marlborough	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.9271	NRA 38803
66	1837-38: letters to Lady Caroline Maxse	West Sussex Record Office	MAXSE	NRA 10619 Maxse
67	1859-74: letters (17) to William Townley Mitford	West Sussex Record Office	MS.2326 ff.24-40	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
68	1868-75: corresp with Lord Napier	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 114	NRA 10012
69	1858-79: letters (10) to Lady Dorothy Nevill	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	MS 4	NRA 30955
70	1859-81: corresp with Sir Stafford Northcote	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 50015-18	NRA 5873
71	1851-79: letters (25) to Sir John Pakington	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	705:8/705:349	NRA 7371 Pakington
72	1846-63: corresp with Lord Palmerston	University of Southampton Library	GC/DI/136-143	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
73	1835-44: corresp with Sir Robert Peel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40421-40539
74	1852-68: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Phillipps-Robinson	NRA 26260
75	1846-55: letters (18) to John, Viscount Ponsonby	Durham University Library and Collections	Ponsonby Papers	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
76	1857-77: letters (19) to Lord Portland	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	PwK 1467-1470 passim	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
77	1835-42: letters (59) to William Pyne: literary papers and family corresp	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum	Disraeli	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
78	1873-80: letters to Bernard Quaritch	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS.Eng.lett.d.410, ff.156-168	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
79	1847-58: letters (10) to 5th Duke of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	vol 3	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
80	1868-80: letters (92) to 6th Duke of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	vol 3	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
81	1866-72: letters (10) to the Earl of Rosebery	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS2244	NRA 10461 Primrose
82	1867-80: letters (21) to Lord and Lady Rosslyn	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD164	NRA 32774 St Clair-Erskine
83	1846-73: letters, as sponsor, to the Royal Literary Fund	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Loan no.96	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
84	c1872-81: letters to WH Smith	University of Reading: Special Collections	HA	NRA 4812 Smith
85	1835-75: corresp with Lord Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/C333	NRA 25095
86	1870-79: letters to Edward Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/O271	NRA 25095
87	1861-74: letters (12) to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell	Glasgow City Archives	T-SK 29.11-24	NRA 24669 Stirling See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
88	letters (25) to Sir Henry Stracey	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See Annual Return 2010
89	1860-80: corresp with Duchess of Sutherland	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D593, 868, 4092, 4193, 4401; D(W)O/5-6	NRA 10699 Leveson-Gower
90	letters to John Swinton	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS200	NRA 10561
91	1868-81: letters to AC Tait	Lambeth Palace Library	Tait	NRA 8476 Tait
92	1854-67: letters to SH Walpole	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 23819 Walpole See HMC corresp file - Holland, David
93	1855-65: letters to Spencer Walpole	Jewish Museum, London (fomerly Finchley)	MS 4D	NRA 30955
94	1871: letters to GF Watts	Watts Gallery	GFW	NRA 8123 Watts
95	c1863: corresp with Lord Wemyss	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS208	NRA 10743 Charteris
96	1851-72: letters to Samuel Wilberforce	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Wilberforce (passim)	NRA 7132 Wilberforce
97	1830-63: letters to his sister, Sarah and others	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 37502
98	letters (11) to his sister Sarah	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 74793	See Annual Return 2000
99	letters to his sister Sarah and others	Jewish Museum, London (fomerly Finchley)		NRA 30955
100	1835-81: misc letters and papers	University of Illinois Library, Chicago		See NUC MS 61-2102
101	misc letters and papers	Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library		See NUC MS 84-528
102	misc letters	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Accessions to Repositories, 1966
103	1827-71: letters (photocopies of exported MSS):	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 134
104	1848-68: letters	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)		See Accessions to Repositories, 1963
105	1834-79: letters (26); literary MSS (3)	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979
106	19th cent: letter to sister, Sarah Disraeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	11469	See Annual Return 2015
107	1832: Letter from Disraeli to James George Tatem, requesting his support in the forthcoming Parliamentary election, with photocopy, transcript and biographical details	Buckinghamshire Archives	AR 14/2020	See Annual Return 2020

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Disraeli, Mary Anne, (1792-1872), wife of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield	wife/husband	1839-1872	Family