1879, GREAT BRITAIN: A political cartoon showing a crowd watching a horserace between Lord Rosebery and Benjamin Disraeli representing the Midlothian campaign of 1879-80. Engraving by J. Bert. Mantrop on magazine THE GLADSTONE CARTOON, a Victorian album of political satires. The british jewish politician Benjamin DISRAELI was the Prime Minister at time of Queen Victoria, 1th Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881). Disraeli's biographers believe he was descended from Italian Sephardic Jews from FINALE EMILIA (Modena)