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Show Disraeli and His Ancestry Even In old age, when ho wns Journeying Jour-neying to tho grne full of honors, Lord Ilenconsnold spoko proudly of his Hebrew ancestry; but Mr. Luclcn Wolf Is nt somo pnlns to proa that tho whole storj of the Dtsrnolls, as set forth In his memoir of his father, Is, to say tho least, unreliable. Says Mr. Wolf: "Tho Statement that the nnmo DIs-rnoll DIs-rnoll lind 'never been homo boforo or slnco by nny other family' Is only truo of Lord Deaponsflcld himself, for ho was the llrst Dlsrnell. His fnthor to tho end of his days spelt his nnmo D'Isrncll, nnd bis grandfather, who first adopted tho noblllnry particle, wns known In his joung days, Hko his father before him, as slmplo Is-rnoll. Is-rnoll. Nor is It quite truo to say that tho nnmo stands absolutely nlono In tho world's onomnstlcon. Throughout tho 8th century a Huguenot fnmlly, named Dlsrnell, wns a resident In London. It became extinct with ono Benjamin Disraeli, of lleechey 1'nrk, Cnrlow, a rich mono) -louder nnd notary no-tary of Dublin, who died In 1811. There Is nlso to da. In Vienna, u family named Disraeli, hut they rather tend to confirm Lord HoncoiiHllold'a hypothesis, hypoth-esis, since thoy hno only recently adopted the name. Dven In Its most authentic form of Israeli tho nnmo I wns not uupiececleiited In tho 5th century, cen-tury, for It had been homo with considerable con-siderable distinction by Jows 500 jenrs. before, nnd It wns Btlll current nt tho tlmo of tho Spanish exodus." Mr. Wolf traces tho ohsciiro origin of tho faintly from tho tlmo when a ccrtnln Hcnjamln D'Isrncll wns horn nt Certo, Kerrnrn, tho fnmlly having probably come from tho Levant. This Ilenjnmln D'lsrnoll emigrated to Kng-I Kng-I land In his 8th juar, and wns tho nn-I nn-I cestor of Lord llcnconslleld. Mr. Wolf mentions Incidentally tho Interesting Inter-esting fact Hint Mr. Plncro Is a do-scendnnt do-scendnnt of n collateral branch of tho family. |