Peter George Muir Dickson, FBA, FRHistS (26 April 1929 – 16 October 2021) was a British historian.
Born in 1929, Dickson was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies.
He was elected to a two-year research fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1954 and was then a tutor at St Catherine's Society, Oxford, from 1956 until 1960, when the society was formed into St Catherine's College, Oxford, and he was elected one its first fellows.
In 1978, he was appointed Reader in Modern History at the University of Oxford and in 1989 he was promoted to Professor of Early Modern History, a chair he held until 1996.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[1] and in 1988 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities.