Patricia Mary, Baroness Carson (5 March 1929, Oreston – 13 October 2014, Ghent) was an Anglo-Belgian historian and author.
In 1954, she married Raoul Van Caenegem, historian and professor at the University of Ghent; the couple had two sons and a daughter.
[citation needed] Carson obtained a Bachelor in history at the University of London, followed by a Master of Arts (history) with a thesis on London in the 18th century.
After her wedding, she lived permanently in Ghent and made her speciality of studying the relations between Great Britain and the Low Countries throughout the centuries.
Her most successful book, many times reprinted, was The Fair Face of Flanders.