Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Arthur Pattinson, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, DFC (8 October 1890 – 28 March 1955) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Flying Training Command from 1940 to 1941.

Educated at Rugby School and Cambridge University, Pattinson was commissioned into the 5th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in 1914 at the start of the First World War.

[1] Between the wars Pattinson was Station Commander at RAF Andover and then, from 1930, Deputy Director of Organisation at the Air Ministry.

[1] He served in the Second World War as Air Officer Commanding Flying Training Command and then as Head of the RAF Training Mission to the Chinese Air Force before retiring in 1945.

[1] In recognition of his contribution to the development of the Chinese Air Force, in 1943 General Chiang Kai-shek gave him a black and gold lacquerware vase which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.