Books/Writings
Benjamin Disraeli
1804 – 1881
English

Prime minister. Although Jewish, his parents converted to Anglicanism, which made their son's political career possible. Disraeli was something of a dandy in his youth, and wrote popular novels, but he became the leader of conservative "old England," the friend of dukes and earls. He said he married (an older woman) for money but would have remarried her for love.

Contemporaries
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1880–1958Marie Stopes
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1879–1976Ernest Shepard
1866–1943Beatrix Potter
1839–1894Walter Pater
1857–1928Emmeline Pankhurst
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1880–1912Lawrence Oates
1834–1896William Morris
1873–1958G. E. Moore
1802–1876Harriet Martineau
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1800–1859Thomas Macaulay
1865–1936Rudyard Kipling
1792–1866John Keble
1795–1821John Keats
1820–1903Herbert Spencer
1832–1902G. A. Henty
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1847–1933Annie Besant
1775–1817Jane Austen
1822–1888Matthew Arnold