Benjamin Disraeli

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Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:59 am

History today has tweeted a 1999 article (then 150 year anniversary of the event) concerning one of the UK's foremost political figures of the 19th Century - Benjamin Disraeli.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/di ... leadership

His reputation as a snappy dresser was, in those days, supposed to count against him, but frankly who wouldn't be charmed by such a comfortable looking velvet coat. As HT mentions :
...foreign-looking, flamboyant, bitingly witty, cynical and overdressed. His finances and past relationships with women were suspect. He was too clever and pleased with himself by half, and he wrote novels.
As more recent history perhaps makes plain, the guy was dead-cert political success.

(I was told at school that he was the original object of the the nonsensical English aspersion : "too clever by half" that has hung around nearly 200 years)

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