In August 1876, Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords as Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden. |
The name Beaconsfield, a town near Hughenden, also was given to a minor character in Vivian Grey. |
Ian Morris, defending, said Furling, of Beaconsfield, Prescot, had a history of mental health problems and used alcohol to selfmedicate. |
Before his own elevation to an earldom, Disraeli's wife was created Viscountess Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria. |
Parliament opened in February 1877, with Disraeli now in the Lords as Earl of Beaconsfield. |
In 2013 he gave a talk at Beaconsfield Library which he had visited as a child and donated the income from the event to it. |