Harry Thomas Dickinson FRSE (9 March 1939-24 January 2024)[1] was an English historian specialising in British eighteenth century politics.
He obtained his BA and MA from the University of Durham and his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He was Reader in History and later Richard Lodge Professor of British History at the University of Edinburgh.
[3] Isaac Kramnick wrote that of the biographies of Lord Bolingbroke, Dickinson's was the "most reliable".
[4] In the opinion of David Armitage, Dickinson's life of Lord Bolingbroke "replaced all earlier accounts".