In his capacity as the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, Albert Venn Dicey famously denied there was such a thing as administrative law in England. What is not generally known is that Dicey in his capacity as counsel to the Inland Revenue argued some of the leading administrative law cases of the late nineteenth century and was thus one of the most prominent administrative lawyers at the bar during his day. Dicey had a number of intellectual blind spots. Administrative law was the biggest one.1