Like many members of the Victorian intellectual aristocracy, Albert Venn Dicey had not one but several careers. Members of the landed aristocracy might have enjoyed lives of leisure, but members of the intellectual aristocracy usually needed to engage in paid work of some kind. Of course, Dicey would not have chosen a life of leisure even if that option had been available. If he had internalised any assumptions of his Clapham forebears at all, it was their sense that those qualified by a liberal education to do so were morally bound to work in the service of the nation. Dicey sought to fulfill this imperative of civic virtue through employment within three distinct but complementary institutions: the university, the bar and the press.