From Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative statesman, Prime Minister 1868 and 1874-1880. Created Earl of Beaconsfield 1876 (John J. Marshall - Belfast Telegraph, 03/03/41, p. 4). Disraeli Street was named after the Prime Minister in the "Story behind the street where you live" by Michael McRitchie in Belfast News-Letter - Monday 23 September 1974. Other streets connected with Disraeli include Lothair Avenue (from his novel of 1876), Hughenden Avenue (from Hughenden Manor, the estate he acquired by his wife) and Coningsby Street, now cleared, which was located in the Oldpark neighbourhood (after his 1844 novel Coningsby, or the New Generation).
Owner: Sir Daniel Dixon two new streets - his property situate off Disraeli Street - Fingal Street and Rathlin Street. Minutes, Town Improvement Committee, 27th July 1898.