Ralph Disraeli

1817 Battezzato con i fratelli nella Chiesa d'Inghilterra

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Ralph Disraeli

• 1891 England & Wales Census
• Birth: Circa 1810 - London, Middlesex
• Residence: 1891 - 34 Bouverie Sq, Folkestone, Kent, England
• Wife: Katherine Disraeli
• Daughter: Marguerite Disraeli

The Jewish Chronicle - Oct 21 1898

Mr. Ralph Disraeli.

The last surviving son of Isaac d'lsraeli has died at the ripe old age of 90. Mr. Ralph Disraeli was the second son. The other brother, James Disraeli, was interred in the vault beneath Hughenden Church, where lie also the remains of Lord Beaconsfield and his wife, and of the lady (Mrs. Brydges Williams), who so seasonably, by her will, endowed the great Minister when he was left a widower with comparatively small means. In the vault of the chancel of Bradenham Church Isaac d'Israeli is buried, while the interior of the little church in Mr. Coningsby Disraeli's park contains a remarkable monument erected by the Queen to the memory of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, a memorial such aa few subjects have ever received from their sovereign. It is of little use now to conjecture how these things might have been had not the Elders of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue insisted so obstinately on forcing upon Isaac d'lsraeli a synagogue office which was distasteful to his feelings. Whether the Queen's great Minister would have attained that position if he had entered public life as a Jew, and not as a baptised Jew, most be very doubtful. But such a man would have had a great career whatever obstacles he had encountered, and he would have been taken more seriously, and more generally believed to have been sincere in his political views had there not been constantly a feeling of suspicion in the minds of his contemporaries that his religious professions were not the representation of his inner-most feelings. This may well have been a mistaken impression, for his conversion happened early in life, and his father was so indifferent to these things that he had probably never received any serious Jewish religious teaching. But the doubt relating to his religious convictions coloured the view which was entertained towards him to the very last, and he would have been more trusted by his Christian fellow-countrymen had he been, like his great contemporaries, Sir Moses Montefiore and Sir Francis Goldsmid, a conforming Jew. The younger brothers followed with still less possibility of any shock to their youthful consciences the religion adopted for Benjamin Disraeli. The late Mr. Ralph Disraei was appointed to his first post in the public service by Lord Lyndhurst, who was a close friend and admirer of "d'lsraeli the younger." Lord Lyndhurst's portrait is one of the most interesting paintings in the squire's house at Hughenden, that historic mansion which is now inhabited by the heir to the glories of two great men of letters, Isaac and Benjamin Disraeli, inheritor also of the political traditions of the latter.