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DICEY, EDWARD (1832– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 178 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DICEY, See also:EDWARD (1832– ) , See also:English writer, son of T. E. Dicey of Claybrook See also:Hall, See also:Leicestershire, was See also:born in 1832. Educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he took mathematical and classical honours, he became an active journalist, contributing largely to the See also:principal reviews. He was called to the See also:bar in 1875, became a bencher of See also:Gray's See also:Inn in 1896, and was treasurer in 190.3-1904. He was connected with the Daily See also:Telegraph as See also:leader writer and then as See also:special correspondent, and after a See also:short spell in 187o as editor of the Daily See also:News he became editor of the Observer, a position which he held until 1889. Of his many books on See also:foreign affairs perhaps the most important are his See also:England and See also:Egypt (1884), See also:Bulgaria, the See also:Peasant See also:State (1895), The See also:Story of the Khedivate (1902), and The Egypt of the Future (1907). He was created C.B. in 1886. His See also:brother See also:ALBERT See also:VENN DICEY (b. 1835), English jurist, was educated at Balliol College, See also:Oxford, where he took a first class in the classical See also:schools in 1858. He was called to the bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 1863. He held fellowships successively at Balliol, Trinity and All Souls', and from 1882 to 1909 was Vinerian See also:professor of See also:law.

He became Q.C. in 189o. His See also:

chief See also:works are the Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885, 6th ed. 1902), which ranks as a See also:standard See also:work on the subject; England's See also:Case against See also:Home See also:Rule (1886) ; A See also:Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of See also:Laws (1896), and Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public See also:Opinion in England during the 19th See also:century (1905).

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