William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger

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Lord Abinger
Born (1826-08-30)30 August 1826
Abinger, England
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Fort William, Scotland
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles/wars Crimean War
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath
File:Inverlochy Castle. - geograph.org.uk - 107767.jpg
The building today known as Inverlochy Castle Hotel was listed as Scarlett's main home at the time of admission into university.

Lieutenant General William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger CB, DL, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (30 August 1826 – 16 January 1892) was a British peer and soldier.

Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] the 3rd Baron became a Captain of the Scots Fusilier Guards regiment of the British Army. He served in the Crimean War fighting between 1854 and 1855 in the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman.

Scarlett succeeded his father Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger, in 1861. He visited the United States during the American Civil War[2] He was promoted to Major in 1868, with promotions through the ranks at intervals of six, three and five years.[1]

In 1863 he married Helen Magruder, daughter of Commodore George Allan Magruder, of the United States Navy. They had one son, James. Their daughter Evelina, who married Major Henry Haverfield, was a suffragette and an aid worker during World War I.[3] One of the two main family estates at this time (the other being the house that is today Inverlochy Castle Hotel) was Abinger Hall, at the foot of the North Downs in Abinger, Surrey. The third baron sold it in 1867 to a Mr Gwynne, who soon thereafter sold it to become the family seat of the statistician recently created first Lord Farrer, who rebuilt the house on that land.[4]

Scarlett's first cousin once removed (downward), 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. Gigha remained in the family's hands until 1919.[5]

References

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  4. ↑ 'Parishes: Abinger' A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 129–134. Accessed 26 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 39.

Bibliography

  • "Abinger, Baron (Scarlett) (Baron UK 1835)." Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 1995. London: Debrett's Peerage Limited, 1995. p. 8–9.
  • http://www.thepeerage.com/p4805.htm
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External links

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