Philip Dottin Souper

Philip Dottin Souper (3 October 1801 – 13 November 1861) was an English colonial administrator and railway company secretary. Early life Souper was born in Middlesex, England. He was baptised in 1802 in London and presented to the church in 1803 in Saint Helier, Jersey, the son of William Henry Souper and Amelia Ann; his mother was the daughter of Philip Reinagle. His father was a British Army officer, in the 1st Regiment of Foot. He exchanged in 1797 into a regiment raised to serve in the West Indies. It was led by William Myers, had incorporated the St Vincent Rangers, and was known as "Myers' Regiment of Foot". He was paymaster of the Chasseurs Britanniques at the time the family was in Jersey. In 1813, Souper's father was transferred to become a paymaster at Lymington, Dorset. In a noted case, he was convicted of murder in Lymington in 1814, after a duel in which he killed another officer. The judge, Sir Henry Dampier, recommended mercy. It was then reported that Henry William and Amelia Ann Souper had a family of six sons and a daughter. In 1817, Souper became a lieutenant in the York Chasseurs, which he had joined as an ensign in May 1815. This formation took part in the Invasion of Guadeloupe.