Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-10 | Page 4 | Disraeli and His Ancestry

disraeli and his ancestry even in old age when he was jour beying to the grave full of honors lord Beacons fled spoke proudly of his hebrew ancestry but air luceen wolf Is at some pains to prove that the whole story of the disraelly as set forth in his memoir of his father is 10 lo say the least unreliable says mr wolf the statement that the name dis baeli had never been borne before or since by any other family is only true of lord beaconsfield Beacons field himself for he was the first disraeli his father to the end of his days spelt his name disraeli and his grandfather who first adopted the particle was cnown in his komg days like his father before him as simple Is baell nor Is it quite true to say that the name stands absolutely alone in the world s throughout the ath century a huguenot family named disraeli was a resident in london it became extinct with one benjamin disraeli of beechey park bailow a rich moneylender and notary of dublin who died in 1814 there Is also today in vienna a family named disraeli but they rather tend to confirm lord beaconsfield Beacons field s cypoth esis since they have only recently adopted the name even in its most authentic form of israeli the name was not unprecedented in the ath den tury for it had been borne with on sid erable distinction by jewe years before and it waa still current at the time of the spanish exodus mr wolf traces the obscure origin of the family from the time when a certain benjamin disraeli was born at certo ferrara the family having probably come from the levant this benjamin disraeli emigrated to eng land in his ath year and was the an aestor of lord mr wolf mentions incidentally the inter eating fact that mr pinero Is a descendant ant of a collateral branch of the