Abel Rous Dottin was a British Army officer and Tory politician.
Occupation
politician, plantation owner
Position held
member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 9th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Abel Rous Dottin (c.1768 – 17 June 1852) was a British army officer and politician, Member of Parliament for and .
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.
In politics
In 1818, Dottin, a Tory, entered Parliament for the rotten borough of Gatton. He failed to be elected in 1820 at Southampton, despite heavy expenditure. In 1826 he was returned there unopposed, and again in 1830. In 1831, he did not stand, for health reasons. Re-elected in 1835, in a contested election, he remained in Parliament until he retired in 1841.
