Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet

Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet (12 January 1727 – 20 March 1814) was an English Tory politician and abolitionist.

After leaving Oxford he married in 1748 Judith, daughter of Somerset English, heiress to a considerable fortune.

[4] The slave ship he documented, the Brookes, became infamous for the depictions that were drawn and published by Thomas Clarkson to support the anti-slavery movement.

[2][5] After the death of his first wife in 1771, he married in 1789 a second cousin, Charlotte Scotchmer, née Affleck.

He was succeeded in the title and estates by John English Dolben, his only surviving son from his first marriage.