What did Benjamin Disraeli blue plaque do at 6 Frederick's Place?

6 Frederick's PlaceBlue Plaque

The Story

At this unassuming building in Frederick's Place, a young Benjamin Disraeli took his first reluctant steps into professional life, working as an articled clerk at a solicitor's firm from 1821 to 1824. The teenage Disraeli, already harboring literary ambitions and finding legal work tedious, spent his days copying documents and learning the intricacies of law - an experience he would later draw upon in his political novels. Though he ultimately abandoned the legal profession to pursue his literary and political aspirations, these formative years in the heart of the City of London exposed the future Prime Minister to the workings of business and finance, knowledge that would prove invaluable during his later stewardship of the British Empire.

Location

6 Frederick's Place, Old Jewry, EC2

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