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Wife of British Prime Minister

Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (née Evans; 11 November 1792 – 15 December 1872) was a British peeress and society figure who was the wife of the British statesman Benjamin Disraeli.

Biography

Born in Brampford Speke, near Exeter in Devon, the only daughter of Commander John Evans and Eleanor Viney (later Mrs Eleanor Yate). In 1815 at Clifton, Bristol, Mary married Wyndham Lewis, MP (1780–1838), a colleague of Benjamin Disraeli.

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Mary Anne Evans, 12 years Disraeli's senior, was the daughter of a Devon sailor, given to sentimental and eccentric fantasies.

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This old book reflects a deep, scholarly examination which established the facts of her life and her relationship with her devoted husband, Benjamin Disraeli.

Mary Anne was born in Brampford Speke near Exeter.

In August 1839, the year following Lewis's death, she married Disraeli at St George's, Hanover Square, in London. Her fortune allowed him to purchase the estate of Hughenden in Buckinghamshire and to live in the style of an English gentleman.^[1]

In recognition of Disraeli's services to the nation, Queen Victoria desired to ennoble him at the end of his first ministry.

However, as he wished to remain in the House of Commons, his wife accepted the title in his pla