OBITUARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 8

OBITUARY

AN AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST. ByTclegmph—Proas Association —Copyright. (Received July 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 8. The death. is-announced of Edward Dicey, author and journalist. Mr Edward Dicey was scventy-Tu.no years ef sge. He was educated at Trinity Collage, Cambridge. He was at one time ksonuccted with the London “Daily Telegraph.*" and was editor of the “observer” from £57-0 to jSB9. Before taking that position he spent a considerable time in fcnrops and America during the stirring happenings of the sixties, and the result wee a series of worlds which, wnen puofished. aroused much interest. Among thcuo were a mem car of Count Cavour. one id the liberators of Italy, “Six Months In the Federal States'* (1863), “The SchlcswigHnUtem Warr" (1864). and “Battlefields of 1866 “ Ho also wrote bn the late King Victor Emmaruel, Bulgaria, Bnsuia, and ’-Egypt. and strongly advocated the annexaCbu of rile last-named country hy Britain. He al£o took much interest in South African affairs. Amid hie literary work be found time for legal studios, and was waited to the bar in 1875, and became a tnoottfer of Gray’s Irm in 1896. lie was a Ai&tber of Professor Albert Dicey, of Oxlord, celebrated as the author of a remarkable work on the Law of the British Qonstitatiou. , A WKLL-KNOIYN PAINTER. (Received July 10, 0.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 9. Mr Douglas Fry, the well-known animal painter, is dead.