ABSTRACT
Young England was a four-man ginger group within the Peelite Conservative Party comprising Disraeli, Smythe, Manners and Baillie-Cochrane. They looked back to the Middle Ages as a golden time and were highly critical of the middle classes, particularly those influenced by the ideas of Bentham. Instead they believed in an almost mystic identity of interest between the Crown, aristocracy and the working class and offered a romantic version of paternalism before breaking up over the Maynooth Grant in 1845.
