Earl of Beaconsfield

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 1878

Coat of arms of the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield as a Knight of the Order of the Garter

Earl of Beaconsfield , in the County of Buckingham , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , which was named after the place Beaconsfield .

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on August 21, 1876 by Queen Victoria for the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli . Along with the dignity of Earl, he was given the subordinate title Viscount Hughenden , of Hughenden in the County of Buckingham.

Since the Earl remained childless, his titles expired on his death on April 19, 1881.

List of Earls of Beaconsfield (1876)

• Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)

See also

• Viscountess Beaconsfield (1868)

Web links

• Beaconsfield, Earl of (UK, 1876-1881) at Cracroft's Peerage
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The London Gazette : No. 24355, p. 4594 , August 18, 1876.