Alison Patrick (historian)

Alison Patrick
Born
Alison Mary Houston Hamer

(1921-03-24)24 March 1921
Kew, Victoria, Australia
Died16 March 2009(2009-03-16) (aged 87)
Canterbury, Victoria, Australia
RelativesRupert Hamer (1916–2004)
David Hamer (1923–2002)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Alison Mary Houston Patrick FAHA (nee Hamer; 24 March 1921 – 16 March 2009) was an Australian historian and scholar of the French Revolution. In 1977 she was the first woman elected head of the Department of History at the University of Melbourne.