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
…leading figure in the “Young England” movement of Britain in the 1840s.
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