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BENJAMIN DISRAELI, A MEMORIAL BROOCH

BENJAMIN DISRAELI, A MEMORIAL BROOCH The circular brooch with a glazed panel above a coil of hair around a gold B, with an engraved gold Earl's coronet above, pearlescent glass verso, within a gold setting, unmarkedSize/dimensions: 2.4cm diameterGross weight: 5.0 grams Provenance: From a relative of the Blagden family. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) was know as Queen Victoria's favourite Prime Minister, and was a prominent figure in Victorian political and public life. He was Prime minister of Great Britain in 1868, and Queen Victoria wrote to her daughter Prussian Crown Princess Victoria 'Mr. Disraeli is Prime Minister! A proud thing for a man 'risen from the people' to have obtained!' . He was again made Prime minister for a term of 1874-1880, and in 1876 he was made Earl of Beaconsfield.Reverend Canon Henry Blagden (1832-1922) was appointed by Disraeli to the church at Hughenden, where Disraeli had his country home. Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne had a close relationship and friendship with Henry Blagden and his wife Isabella through the works of the church as well as through life on the Hughenden estate, where the reverend stayed for 25 years. The Blagden's remained at the Hughenden Estate after Disraeli's death, where his loss was much felt and lamented. Due to royal protocol, Queen Victoria wasn't able to attend his funeral at Hughenden, but a few days after she made a surprise visit from Windsor to his grave, where the Blagden's had to rush from their usual parish rounds in order to greet her. A year later they had a personal meeting with the Queen, and in 1887 due to Isabella's friendship with Lord Beaconsfield, or Dizzy as the family sometimes referred to him as, she was permitted to present the Queen with a gift for her jubilee, and within 10 weeks she had embroidered a fine chair for Queen Victoria.

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