Richard Phillipson Dunn Pattison was a British soldier and academic historian who specialized in military history. Pattison was the son of Alexander Dunn Pattison, an advocate for Old Kilpatrick in Dumbarton, and his wife Minnie Phillipson. He served with the 91st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After studying at New College, Oxford, where he graduated first in the Final History School in 1901, he was appointed history lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford, in late 1902. He went on to become a Fellow of the College and Professor of History at Oxford University. He became a prominent military historian, first writing War in 1904 and then Napoleon's Marshals in 1909. Dunn Pattison captained the Devonshire Regiment's 6th Battalion (Territorial) during World War I. He was killed in combat in Mesopotamia. Dunn Pattison married Mary Winifred Wilkes, who attended Girton College. She was Rev. Alpheus Wilkes' daughter and Paget Wilkes' sister, and she penned his biography. The couple has two daughters.