1880, GREAT BRITAIN: A political cartoon showing Benjamin Disraeli, wearing a crown and a barrel on his head, is delivering a speach" The bunkum earl delivering his manifesto" Engraving from magazine THE PEOPLE march 1880, 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)