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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister.
Although born of Jewish parents, Disraeli was baptised in the Christian faith at the age of twelve, and remained an observant Anglican for the rest of his life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism
Disraeli's foreign policy in the 1870s came under attack by Liberals for being "imperialist." He sought to expand and develop the British Empire in the Middle East and Central Asia. In spite of the objections of his own cabinet and without Parliament's consent, in 1875 he obtained a short-term loan from
Lionel de Rothschild in order to purchase 44% of the shares of the British East India Company. Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.
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With Gladstone's refusal, Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control. Stanley, with Disraeli's assistance, proposed and guided the India Act through the house.
This Act formed the basis for governance for the subcontinent for the next sixty years, the East India Company and its Governor-General being replaced by a viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the Board of Control was abolished and its functions were assumed by the newly created India Office, under the Secretary of State for India.