Abel Rous Dottin

Abel Rous Dottin (c. 1768 – 17 June 1852) was a British Army officer and Tory politician.

Dottin was born in St George Hanover Square,[1] the son of Abel Dottin, of Granada Hall, Barbados, who was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1764, and his wife Sarah Rous of Barbados.

In 1795, he was cited in the divorce case of William Townshend Mullins and his second wife, Frances.

[5] Dottin was one of the founders of the Southampton and London Railway and Dock Company, in 1831, with George Walter, and Robert Johnston, from Jamaica and a relation.

[5] Abel Rous Dottin married in 1798, Dorothy, daughter of Robert Burnett Jones of Barbados.