Richard Hatherley Pear

Richard Hatherley (Dick) Pear (10 March 1916 – 17 February 1998) was a British political scientist. He was Professor of Politics at Nottingham University since 1965. He was the son of Tom Hatherley Pear, one of the first professors of psychology in Britain. He received a Politics degree at the London School of Economics in 1938. He served in the Armoured Corps in Kenya in World War 2, rising to the rank of Staff Captain. After the war, he taught at LSE, until his appointment at Nottingham.