DICEY, EDWARD (1832--1911), English writer, son of T. E. Dicey of Claybrook Hall, Leicestershire, was born on May 15, 1832, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he took mathematical and classical honours. He visited the United States in 1862, and in 1863 wrote Six months in the Federal States, in which he took the part of the North. He was called to the bar in 1875, became a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1896, and was treasurer in 1903-04. He was connected with the Daily Telegraph from 1862 onwards 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 for 19 years. Of his many books on foreign affairs perhaps the most important are his England and Egypt (1884), Bulgaria, the Peasant State (1895), The Egypt of the Future (19o7). He died in London on July 7, 1911.
His brother ALBERT VENN DICEY (1835-1922), English jurist, was educated at Balliol college, Oxford, and 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 Con stitution (1885; 6th ed. 1902), 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 rgth century (1905). He died on April 7, 1922.