William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger

Lieutenant-General William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger CB (1826–1892), was a British peer.

Scarlett succeeded his father Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger, in 1861. Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] the 3rd Baron became an officer of the Scots Fusilier Guards regiment of the British Army. He served in the Crimean War fighting in the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Balaclava and the Battle of Inkerman.

In 1863 he married Helen Magruder, daughter of Commodore George Allan Magruder, of the United States Navy. They had at least one son, James, who became Baron at his father's death. Their daughter Evelina married Major Henry Haverfield was a suffragette and an aid worker during World War I.[2]

Scarlett's first cousin once removed, James Williams Scarlett, son of Sir William Anglin Scarlett, purchased the isle of Gigha, off the coast of Argyll, for £49,000 in 1865. His son, Lieutenant-Colonel William James Scarlett, then built the mansion house of Achamore there and Gigha remained in the family's hands until 1919.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Scarlett, the Hon. William Frederick in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  2. ^ Crawford, Elizabeth (September 2004). "Haverfield , Evelina (1867–1920)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56235. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 
  3. ^ Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 39.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Robert Campbell Scarlett		 Baron Abinger
1861–1892		 Succeeded by
James Yorke Macgregor Scarlett