Disraeli
A Personal History
Christopher Hibbert
For John Rae with affection
Table of Contents
12 ‘MOST BRILLIANT AND TRIUMPHANT SPEECHES’
13 ‘A PRETTY LITTLE WOMAN, A FLIRT AND A RATTLE’
28 DISTINGUISHED PERSONS AND PRIVATE SECRETARIES
30 A GUEST AT BALMORAL AND OSBORNE
36 EARL OF BEACONSFIELD AND VISCOUNT HUGHENDEN OF HUGHENDEN
‘He had a taste, not uncommon among schoolboys, for little acts of bargaining and merchandise.’
IN CONVERSATION WITH HIS FRIEND, Lord Barrington, Benjamin Disraeli once observed, ‘I was born in a set of chambers in the Adelphi
– I may say in a library, for all my father’s