Captain William Bolton (died 1817) was a captain in the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary Wars.
He commanded the Aurore from December 1795 to September 1796[1] and Wolverine from February 1799,[2][3] before his promotion to captain and commander of Arrow in early 1800,[4] on which he served in the Battle of Copenhagen.
He took command of Aimable in September 1803, and Fisgard from August 1805 to mid-1809, serving in Jamaica and the North Sea[5] and taking part in the Walcheren Campaign in 1809.
[3][6] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 16 September 1815.
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