1879, GREAT BRITAIN: A political cartoon depicting the Midlothian campaign of 1879-80, Benjamin Disraeli is playing with a puppet of Lord Dalkeith whilst Stafford Northcote is losing the money of the Tory exchequer. Gladstone and Rosebery are in the background.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)