Beaconsfield
Americannoun
noun
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Disraeli became their leader and would twice be named prime minister before Queen Victoria elevated him to the peerage as Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Dad was buried at the foot of a slightly wonky beech tree in Beaconsfield, England, while I was at a breastfeeding support group in New York City.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2024
The 56-year-old, from Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court having been accused of not paying workers' pensions between 2020 and 2022.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024
Christopher John Rome Meyer was born in Beaconsfield, northwest of London, on Feb. 22, 1944.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
The nation, it is true, supported Lord Beaconsfield, but the same nation also very decidedly condemned and rejected him.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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