Abel Rous Dottin

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

Early life Dottin was born in St George Hanover Square, the son of Abel Dottin, of Granada Hall, Barbados, who was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1764, and his wife Sarah Rous of Barbados. On his father's death in 1784, he inherited the Scotland plantation in Barbados. He matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1786, at age 17.

Military career

Dottin became a cornet in the 2nd Life Guards in 1791, and was promoted to captain in 1794. In 1795, he was cited in the divorce case of William Townshend Mullins and his second wife, Frances. George Thomas Landmann in October 1831 brought Walter into planning for the London and Greenwich Railway, and an initial meeting was held in Dottin's house in Argyle Street, London. In July 1837, Dottin and Walter resigned as directors.

Later, Dottin was a director of the London and South Western Railway.

Later life Dottin received compensation for the Coverley estate in Barbados, under the Slave Compensation Act 1837; he had disposed of the Scotland plantation, also called Greenland(s), by 1823, when it was owned by John Rycroft Best. He died in Argyle Street, London on 17 June 1852. By this marriage Dottin was connected to James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron Arundell of Wardour and David Richard Morier, his brothers-in-law. His brother Samuel Rous Dottin, also an army officer, died c. 1797.