DISRAELI'S BAPTISM.
Disraeli seems to have been brought up to the age of twelve without any definite religious ideas, nor did he, or perhaps even his father, know under what denomination he could be classed. His father appears to have belonged to a little sect of his own, being neither a jew nor a Christian. Literary tastes brought together the elder Disraeli and Rogers, and the latter (though bj r no means straitlaced in the matter of morality, notwithstanding that his poetry is so pure) not only suggested that young Benjamin should be baptised, but got the ceremony performed, and stood godfather to |him. The deed was done at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the 31st of July, 1817. The entry may be seen in the parish register, where he is stated to have been then twelve years of age, and " the son of Isaac Disraeli and Maria Basevi." A Mrs Ellis was his godmother.—' Gossip of the Century,' by the author of ' Flemish Interiors,' etc.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 85, 5 June 1908, Page 5
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165DISRAELI'S BAPTISM. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 85, 5 June 1908, Page 5
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