Due to matters of a personal nature I will be unable to make a thread tomorrow morning, so the thread will have to be this evening. Though if any two Prime Ministers deserve and extra evening of discussion, it ought to be these two.
29. First Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
| Portrait | Benjamin Disraeli |
|---|---|
| Post Nominal Letters | PC, KG, FRS |
| In Office | 27 February 1868 - 1 December 1868, 20 February 1874 - 21 April 1880 |
| Sovereign | Queen Victoria |
| General Elections | 1874 |
| Party | [Conservative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK%29) |
| Ministries | Disraeli I, Disraeli II |
| Parliament | MP for Buckinghamshire (until 1876), Earl of Beaconsfield (from 1876) |
| Other Ministerial Offices | First Lord of the Treasury; Leader of the House of Commons; Leader of the House of Lords (II); Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (II) |
| Records | First ethnically Jewish Prime Minister; Oldest Prime Minister to be defeated in a General Election without returning to office (75 years old); Last Prime Minister to be raised from the Commons to the Lords whilst in office; Only Prime Minister to have a goatee. |
Significant Events:
- Public Health Act 1875
- Great Indian Famine of 1876
- Purchasing of shares in the Suez Canal Company
- Congress of Berlin
- Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Breaking up of the League of Three Emperors
- Anglo-Zulu War
30 . William Ewart Gladstone
| Portrait | William Gladstone |
|---|---|
| Post Nominal Letters | [PC](https://en.w |
Saw it on the Whittard's website and thought I'd share! Time to put the kettle on.
>"But let the working man be on his guard against another danger. We live at a time when there is a disposition to think that the Government ought to do this and that and that the Government ought to do everything. There are things which the Government ought to do, I have no doubt. In former periods the Government have neglected much, and possibly even now they neglect something; but there is a danger on the other side. If the Government takes into its hands that which the man ought to do for himself it will inflict upon him greater mischiefs than all the benefits he will have received or all the advantages that would accrue from them. The essence of the whole thing is that the spirit of self-reliance, the spirit of true and genuine manly independence, should be preserved in the minds of the people, in the minds of the masses of the people, in the mind of every member of the class. If he loses his self-denial, if he learns to live in a craven dependence upon wealthier people rather than upon himself, you may depend upon it he incurs mischief for which no compensation can be made."
I saw Engels discuss allegations of Marx having misquoted Gladstone and seen it claimed online that it was a purposeful misquotation and also misinterpretation of the intent behind i. What is the historical truth?
