page_title: Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet
section_title: Family and personality
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet / Family and personality
caption_attribution_description: English: Finedon Hall
context_page_description: Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet, of Finedon, Northamptonshire, was an English lawyer, landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1715. He also served as a High Court judge in Ireland for many years. He was the grandfather of the leading anti-slavery campaigner Sir William Dolben.
context_section_description: By 1683, Dolben married Anne Mulso, eldest daughter  and co-heiress with her sister Elizabeth (who married his brother John)  of Tanfield Mulso of Finedon Hall, Northamptonshire  and his wife Mary Luther, a marriage which greatly increased his wealth. They had one surviving son, Sir John Dolben, 2nd Baronet, who  was father of Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet, a leader in the movement for the abolition of slavery. He died at Finedon in October 1722.
  For many years he was greatly troubled  by the profligacy of his brother John, an inveterate gambler who ran through all his own money  and then his wife's. In 1691 Gilbert wrote that John's wife and children were living on the charity of friends, something he described as shameful  for the family,  and a reproach to his father's memory, as critics  accused the Archbishop of having been a  neglectful parent.
  He was a man of scholarly tastes: John Dryden acknowledged the help Dolben had given him in preparing his translations of Virgil.
caption: Finedon Hall, the family home of Dolben's wife, Anne Mulso
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