Disraeli peerage prompts Buckinghamshire by-election
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- The House of Rothschild whole source · open book
The party political tensions between the Rothschilds and Gladstone came to a head in 1876, when Disraeli’s elevation to the Lords necessitated a by-election in his Buckinghamshire constituency at the very height of Gladstone’s “atrocitarian” campaign.
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