Young England
British political group
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Disraeli
- In Benjamin Disraeli: Breach with Peel
…group of young Tories, nicknamed Young England, and led by George Smythe (later Lord Stangford), looked to Disraeli for inspiration, and he obliged them, notably in his novel Coningsby; or, The New Generation (1844), in which the hero is patterned on Smythe, and the cool, pragmatic, humdrum, middle-class Conservatism that…
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Rutland
- In John James Robert Manners, 7th duke of Rutland
The younger son of the 5th Duke of Rutland, he enjoyed the courtesy title of Marquess of Granby and was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Entering the House of Commons in 1841, Granby and his friend George Smythe (later 7th Viscount Strangford) became…
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