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Benjamin Disraeli
The Prime Minister of the UK from 1874 to 1880, and a British Conservative statesman. He is the first and only UK Prime Minister of Jewish heritage.
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When was Benjamin Disraeli prime minister till?
He was Prime Minister twice, once for just under a year in 1868 as leader of a minority Conservative government, which was dissolved on 1st December and replaced by the Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone.
His second term of office was from 20th February 1874 until 21st April 1880. A personal friend of Queen Victoria, he was the first ethnically Jewish British PM and bestowed the title 'Empress of India' upon Victoria. He introduced a number of positive social reforms, which included the outlawing of the use of boys as chimney sweeps, the Public Health Act of 1875, and improvements in housing conditions for the working classes. He also attended the Congress of Berlin, took Britain into the second Anglo-Afghan War and the Zulu War, and oversaw the break-up of the League of the Three Emperors. Also he bought considerable shares for Britain in the Suez Canal Company.
He died in 1881, at the age of 77.
How did gladstone and disraeli help shape Britain?
During the famin' going on in Ireland , disraeli took advantage and offerd a starving people food, they just had to sign away their land.
Liberal party leader who supported home rule and the vote for working men
Why was Benjamin disraeli so special?
He was the first person of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister in Britain
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What type of economy does denmark have?
Denmark is an industrialised nation mainly exporting Machinery and tools. Chemical and pharmaceutical products also has significant weight. If you are looking for a single product, then the answer will depend on how you group product types, but 'Agricultural products based on pork' will in most cases come out on top.
Where was first British Prime Minister born?
The first British Prime Minister is generally credited as being William Walpole- he was born in 1676 at Houghton Hall in Norfolk on 4th April.
His father, Robert Walpole, was a Whig politician who represented the constituency of Castle Rising, and William was the third of seventeen children, eight of whom died in infancy.
He died on 18th March 1745 at the age of 68. Houghton Hall (which was built for his father) is now a Grade 1 listed building and it's 1,000 acres of parkland are adjacent to the Queen's estate at Sandringham. The hall is open to the public.
