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| rdfs:comment | - Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Rotton (1831 - 12 March 1909) was an army officer and local politician. The son of John Rotton of South Kensington, he entered the British Indian army in 1850, serving in the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny. He returned to Britain, acting as an adjutant to the Royal Horse Artillery in Aldershot. He was again posted to India where he commanded a battery of the Royal Artillery before retiring with the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1872.
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| abstract | - Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Rotton (1831 - 12 March 1909) was an army officer and local politician. The son of John Rotton of South Kensington, he entered the British Indian army in 1850, serving in the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny. He returned to Britain, acting as an adjutant to the Royal Horse Artillery in Aldershot. He was again posted to India where he commanded a battery of the Royal Artillery before retiring with the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1872. He entered local politics as a Moderate Party member of the London County Council, elected to represent Clapham in 1889. He briefly lost his seat at the next elections in 1892, but regained the seat at a by-election in the following year. He held the seat until standing down at the 1907 council election. He was for some time chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee and in 1901-1902 held the office of deputy chairman of the county council. He was nominated by the county council to the membership of the Metropolitan Water Board.
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