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Edward Dicey
Edward Dicey in 1865
Born	Edward James Stephen Dicey 15 May 1832(1832-05-15) Leicestershire, England
Died	7 July 1911 (aged 79) London, England
Education	King's College London, Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation	Author, journalist and editor
Spouse(s)	Anne Greene Chapman (1867-1878)
Children	One son
Notable relatives	A. V. Dicey (brother) Sir James Stephen (uncle) James Fitzjames Stephen (cousin) Leslie Stephen (cousin)

Edward James Stephen Dicey (15 May 1832, Claybrook Hall, Leicestershire - 7 July 1911, London) was an English writer, journalist, and editor.

Dicey was the son of Thomas Edward Dicey, owner of the Northampton Mercury, and Anne Mary, née Stephen. He spent two years at King's College, London before attending Trinity College, Cambridge; during his time there he was President of the Cambridge Union during Michaelmas term 1853, and took mathematical and classical honours.^[1] After a brief but unsuccessful period as a businessman, he gravitated towards writing and became an active journalist, specializing in foreign affairs. Starting in 1860 he was a regular contributor to The Spectator, and in 1862 he became a member of the staff of the Daily Telegraph. During the 1860s he traveled extensively throughout Europe, and he journeyed to the United States and the Near East; these experiences were not only the source of his reporting, but served as the basis of a number of books as well.

After three months in 1870 as editor of the Daily News, Dicey was named editor of the Sunday weekly The Observer. He served as the editor of The Observer for nearly two decades, giving the newspaper a scholarly tone but doing little to boost its small circulation.^[2]. He maintained his interest in international affairs and continued his travels abroad, particularly to Eastern Europe and Egypt. A Liberal from his early years, he broke with the party over the issue of Home Rule in the mid-1880s and became a Liberal Unionist. He was created CB in 1886.

After leaving the editorship of The Observer in 1889, Dicey continued contributing occasional pieces to the newspaper, as well as to other publications. The brother of noted jurist A. V. Dicey, he was called to the bar himself in 1875, and became a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1896, serving as its treasurer from 1903 until 1904. Dicey died at Gray's Inn in 1911 and was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.^[3]

Works

Rome in 1860 (1861)
Cavour: A Memoir (1861)
Six Months in the Federal States (1863)
The Schleswig-Holstein War (1864)
The Battle-Fields of 1866 (1866)
A Month in Russia during the Marriage of the Czarevitch (1867)
The Morning Land, being Sketches of Turkey, the Holy Land, and Egypt (1870)
England and Egypt (1881)
Victor Emmanuel (1882)
Bulgaria, the Peasant State (1894)
The Story of the Khedivate (1902)
The Egypt of the Future (1907).

References

^ Dicey, Edward James Stephen in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
^ H.C.G. Matthew, "Dicey, Edward James Stephen", in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) vol. 16, p. 45.
^ Brompton football equipment training folding at brompton.org at www.brompton.org

External links

Works by Edward Dicey at Project Gutenberg

Media offices
Preceded by Thomas Walker	Editor of The Daily News 1870 - 1870	Succeeded by Frank Harrison Hill
Preceded by Joseph Snowe	Editor of The Observer 1870 - 1889	Succeeded by Henry Duff Traill

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EDWARD DICEY (1832-), English writer, son of T. E. Dicey of Claybrook Hall, Leicestershire, was born in 1832. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took mathematical and classical honours, he became an active. journalist, contributing largely to the principal reviews. He was called to the bar in 1875, became a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1896, and was treasurer in 1903-1904. He was connected with the Daily Telegraph as leader writer and then as special correspondent, and after a short spell in 1870 as editor of the Daily News he became editor of the Observer, a position which he held until 1889. Of his many books on foreign affairs perhaps the most important are his England and Egypt (1884), Bulgaria, the Peasant State (1895), The Story of the Khedivate (1902), and The Egypt of the Future (1907). He was created C.B. in 1886.

His brother Albert Venn Dicey (b. 1835), English jurist, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the classical schools in 1858. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1863. He held fellowships successively at Balliol, Trinity and All Souls', and from 1882 to 1909 was Vinerian professor of law. He became Q.C. in 1890. His chief works are the Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885, 6th ed. 1902), which ranks as a standard work on the subject; England's Case against Home Rule (1886); A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws (1896), and Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the 19th century (1905).