Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli is the Prime Minister the Templars want dead in Sequence 7. Jacob poses as his bodyguard to save him, and the Disraelis later help the twins steal the Gladstones' invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball.
- Role
- Supporting
Good to know
- Born 21 December 1804 in London; died 19 April 1881.
- Twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Changed his surname from D'Israeli in 1821.
- Married Mary Anne Lewis in 1839; she called him Dizzy.
- A lifelong rival of William Gladstone.
- His Corrupt Practices Act of 1868 targets electoral bribery, which is why the Templars want him gone.
The plot against him
The Templars want to stall the Corrupt Practices Act and put Gladstone in power, so the Earl of Cardigan hires men to kill Disraeli. In Playing Politics Jacob tracks him to the Sinopean Club. In The Bodyguard he slips into the Disraelis' carriage claiming to be their protection, and fights off Blighters when they attack and later hijack the carriage. Disraeli blames Gladstone and storms off to Downing Street.
The ball invitations
Invited to the train hideout, the Disraelis admit no invitations to the palace ball are left. Disraeli says he would hand over his own if Gladstone were going, and Evie suggests Jacob simply steal the Gladstones'. The couple gladly supply the address.
Queen Victoria's London Stories
Disraeli is caught up in the Templar plot to bomb Parliament. The twins rescue him from the Templar leader and defuse the bombs, and he takes them to the Queen to be thanked.
- Playing PoliticsPlaying Politics opens Sequence 7 at the Sinopean Club, where Jacob watches Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli argue with William Gladstone and looks for the mysterious B who is plotting Disraeli's death. A spy, a rooftop sniper and a chase follow.
- The BodyguardThe Bodyguard has Jacob slip into Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli's carriage outside 10 Downing Street just before hired thugs attack it. You fight off the ambush, chase the carriage when it is stolen and bring the couple back safely.
- Driving Mrs. DisraeliDriving Mrs. Disraeli is an escort memory with a comic streak: Jacob shakes off reporters, drives Mary Anne Disraeli and her dog Desmond into the Devil's Acre slum, and keeps her out of trouble long enough to learn who B is.
Motion to ImpeachMotion to Impeach is the assassination of the Earl of Cardigan inside the Palace of Westminster. Jacob steals a password, takes a policeman hostage to walk into Westminster Hall, and has an opposing MP lead him straight to Cardigan's office.- Double TroubleDouble Trouble begins the finale: after a bitter argument, the twins agree to one last job together, and Jacob has to steal William and Catherine Gladstone's invitations to the Queen's ball. The two split up, so you pickpocket each one in turn.
- Operation: WestminsterOperation: Westminster is the last Queen Victoria memory: the remaining Templar bombers have got into the Houses of Parliament with their explosives. You work through the building with Fleming, removing bombers one by one, then deal with the leader and defuse the charges.
- Queen Victoria's London StoriesQueen Victoria's London Stories are four side memories in which the Queen sends the Frye twins after an upstart Templar faction planning bomb attacks across London. Each one starts at Buckingham Palace and works with her spymaster Alfred Fleming.
Related characters
- Antagonist
Earl of Cardigan
The Earl of Cardigan, James Brudenell, is the Templar politician behind the plot to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Sequence 7 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Known in Templar letters only as B, he is the target of the memory Motion to Impeach at the Palace of Westminster.
- Supporting
Mary Anne Disraeli
Mary Anne Disraeli is the outspoken wife of the Prime Minister. In Driving Mrs. Disraeli she makes Jacob take her slumming in the Devil's Acre, and in return tells him who the mysterious B behind the plot against her husband is.
- Supporting
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria gives the Queen Victoria London Stories, in which the twins stop a new Templar faction's bombing campaign. She also hosts the Buckingham Palace ball at the end of the main story and appears in The Dreadful Crimes and The Last Maharaja.
- Protagonist
Evie Frye
Evie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.