Sir Denis William Dobson KCB OBE QC (17 October 1908 – 15 December 1995) was a British solicitor, barrister and civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from 5 April 1968 to 15 April 1977.
Moving to London he spent a year in a City firm before, disenchanted, joining a company of parliamentary draftsmen.
There the Treasury Solicitor, Sir Thomas Barnes, introduced him to Albert Napier, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, who offered him a job.
Accepting, he transferred to the Lord Chancellor's Department in April 1947, and was soon recognised as a potential future Permanent Secretary.
Dobson retired in 1977, sitting as a member of the Advisory Council on Public Records until 1983, and died on 15 December 1995.