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A. V. Dicey

1835 - 1922

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Albert Venn Dicey, (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922) was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist. He is most widely known as the author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885). The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified British constitution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. V. Dicey has received more than 516,987 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). A. V. Dicey is the 83rd most popular lawyer (down from 68th in 2019), the 4,340th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,298th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, A. V. Dicey ranks 83 out of 136. Before him are Louise Arbour, Clarence Darrow, George Hadley, Gu Kailai, Ken Starr, and Christian Gottfried Körner. After him are Doug Emhoff, G. Gordon Liddy, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Christopher A. Wray, Clara González, and Aisha Rateb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, A. V. Dicey ranks 84. Before him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Richard Andree, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, and Richard Olney. After him are William Stanley Haseltine, Vítězslav Hálek, Lyman Abbott, Rebecca Latimer Felton, John La Farge, and Fitzhugh Lee. Among people deceased in 1922, A. V. Dicey ranks 118. Before him are Lev Chugaev, Vilma Hugonnai, Jørgen Løvland, Cathal Brugha, Serapio Calderón, and John Moresby. After him are John Wanamaker, August Palm, Alfred Capus, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, William Desmond Taylor, and Lyman Abbott.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, A. V. Dicey ranks 4,340 out of 8,785. Before him are Jarvis Cocker (1963), David Goodall (1914), Sam Brown (1964), Amy Macdonald (1987), Terence Rattigan (1911), and Euphemia de Ross (1333). After him are John Gardner (1926), William Henry Dean (1887), Richard D. Ryder (1940), Michael Crawford (1942), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), and Thomas Henderson (1798).

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Among LAWYERS In United Kingdom

Among lawyers born in United Kingdom, A. V. Dicey ranks 6. Before him are Peter Benenson (1921), William Blackstone (1723), John Selden (1584), Henry de Bracton (1210), and George Hadley (1685). After him are Karim Ahmad Khan (1970), and Philippe Sands (1960).

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