He dueled with Sir Robert Peel over the repeal of the Corn Laws, and Lord Derby first made him Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1852, beginning his rise through the Conservative ranks.
He tried to start a newspaper called The Representative to further the cause of mines, but the mining bubble burst, and the paper failed, which was the basis for his novel Vivian Grey. He contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet related to the Reform Bill of 1832, and he won his first seat in Parliament in 1837, helping to found the Young England group in 1842. He dueled with Sir Robert Peel over the repeal of the Corn Laws, and Lord Derby first made him Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1852, beginning his rise through the Conservative ranks. FTP, name this Prime Minister of Britain in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, who had a rivalry with William Gladstone.
He tried to start a newspaper called The Representative to further the cause of mines, but the mining bubble burst, and the paper failed, which was the basis for his novel Vivian Grey.
Benjamin Disraeli