Richard Barrie Dobson, FSA, FRHistS, FBA (3 November 1931 – 29 March 2013) was an English historian who was a leading authority on the legend of Robin Hood as well as a scholar of ecclesiastical and Jewish history.
[1] As his father worked for the Great Western Railway of Brazil his spent his early years in South America.
[2] The family returned to England and he spent his boyhood living in Mickleton, North Riding of Yorkshire.
[2] Upon completion of his National Service, in 1951 he matriculated into Wadham College, University of Oxford, to study modern history.
[4] He then joined Magdalen College, Oxford, where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree.