Sir William Dolben KS KC (c. 1627 – 25 January 1694) was an English judge who sat as a Justice of the King's Bench.

Dolben apparently served well as Recorder; when he was promoted a few years later, the Corporation of London gave him some silver plate "as a loving remembrance".

[4] At the trial of Mary Pressicks, who was accused of saying that "We shall never be at peace until we are all of the Roman Catholic religion", Dolben saved her life by ruling that the words, even if she did speak them, could not amount to treason.

[5] As a result of this and his opposition to Charles II's removal of the City Corporation's writs, he was "according to the vicious practise of the time" dismissed on 18 April 1683.

Records from 29 April show him "inveighing mightily against the corruption of juries [during the Glorious Revolution]",[1] and he continued sitting as a Justice until his death from an apoplectic fit on 25 January 1694,[6] and was buried in Temple Church.