Ralph Dison or Ralfe Dyson (died 1628) was a servant of the English royal family.
Dison was under-keeper of the royal palace, gardens, and wardrobe at Oatlands. His annual fee was £12. The keeper was John Trevor (1563–1630), whose annual fee was £27-7s-8d.Wendy Hitchmough, 'Setting the Stuart court: placing portraits in the performance of Anglo-Spanish negotiations', Journal of the History of Collections, 32:2 (July 2020), pp. 245-264. : TNA SP 14/86 f.181: Tracts during the reign of King James I (London, 1809), p. 389.
His name appears in the inventories of Anne of Denmark. He made a list of six paintings to be sent to the queen's gallery at Hampton Court with a servant of John Whynyard, yeoman of the king's beds, and oversaw the return of red velvet hangings to Whitehall Palace and a folding Chinese screen to Somerset House. Dison was included as under-keeper of Oatlands in a version of Anne's household roll written in French in 1619.Wendy Hitchmough, 'Setting the Stuart court: placing portraits in the performance of Anglo-Spanish negotiations', Journal of the History of Collections, 32:2 (July 2020), pp. 245-264: Household list of 1619 written in French, BNF MS Français 15990
In December 1618, Frances Southwell, a gentlewoman of Anne's privy chamber, wrote a note to Ralph Dison requesting a group of six paintings with religious subjects which Anne of Denmark wanted to display in her gallery at Hampton Court.Wendy Hitchmough, 'Setting the Stuart court: placing portraits in the performance of Anglo-Spanish negotiations', Journal of the History of Collections, 32:2 (July 2020), p. 263.Jemma Field, Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts (Manchester, 2020), p. 200: Erin Griffey, On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court (Yale, 2015), pp. 71–72.
Ralph Dison died before 1628. The executor of his will was his widow Phoebe Alexander, the daughter of a London ironmonger Ralph Cannynge.Acts of the Privy Council, 1628-1629, p. 294: Richard Dell, The Glynde Place Archives: A Catalogue (1946), pp. 46-7.
The next under-keeper at Oatlands was John Griffith.
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