Richard Phillipson Dunn Pattison (1874 – 8 March 1916) was a British soldier and academic

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specialising in military history.

Biography

Dunn Pattison was the son of Alexander Dunn Pattison, who was an

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, Dumbarton, and his wife Minnie Phillipson. He served with the 91st

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. After studies at

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, where in 1901 he took a first class in the Final History School, he was, in late 1902, elected a lecturer in history at

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. He was a later a Fellow of the college, and became Professor of History at

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. He became distinguished military historian and after publishing ''War'' in 1904, followed it up with ''Napoleon's Marshals'' in 1909. This classic work, containing detailed biographical sketches of the 24 Marshals of France appointed by

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, was republished in 2007. His history of the Edward the Black Prince is a popular and scholarly biography, as is his history of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Dunn Pattison served in

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and was a captain in the 6th Battalion (Territorial),

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. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia. Dunn Pattison married Mary Winifred Wilkes who was at Girton College. She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Wilkes and sister of

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, whose biography she wrote.M W Dunn Pattison ''Ablaze for God – The life story of Paget Wilkes'' (1937) The couple had two daughters.

Publications

*''Napoleon's Marshals'', 1909 Methuen, Republished 2007 *''The Black Prince'', 1910 Methuen *''The History of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders'', 1910

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*''Figures in European History'', 1912 Rivington's

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* * 1874 births 1916 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers British military historians British military personnel killed in World War I British Army personnel of World War I {{UK-historian-stub

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