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Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger

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Commander The Right Honourable
The Lord Abinger
Lord Abinger in the First World War
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
11 December 1903 – 23 May 1917
Preceded byThe 4th Baron Abinger
Succeeded byThe 6th Baron Abinger
Personal details
Born
Shelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett

(1872-04-01)1 April 1872
Died23 May 1917(1917-05-23) (aged 45)
London, England
Military career
Buried
Brookwood Cemetery
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
BranchBritish Army
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
RankCommander
Unit3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Battles / warsFirst World War

Shelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger (1 April 1872 – 23 May 1917), was a British hereditary peer and military officer.

Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, and a great-grandson of the 1st Baron Abinger. His mother had been adopted by Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet, son of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Career

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Scarlett served as an Honorary Attaché in Stockholm from 1897 to 1899.[1]

Scarlett succeeded his childless second cousin, James Scarlett, in the barony in 1903. In 1904, a royal warrant of precedence was issued, which allowed Scarlett's siblings (Robert, Hugh, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold) to be styled Honourable.[2]

Scarlett served in the First World War from 1914, holding the rank of captain and honorary major in the 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.[1] On 17 October 1915, Scarlett was awarded a temporary commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve with the honorary rank of commander.[3] Serving under the Director of the Intelligence Division,[4] he ran intelligence gathering operations in the south of neutral Spain.[5]

Scarlett was serving at the Admiralty at the time of his death in May 1917, aged 45. He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery.[4]

Marriage

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Grave of Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger, in Brookwood Cemetery

Scarlett married Lila Lucy Catherine Mary Geijer (née White), daughter of Sir William Arthur White, in 1899. They had no children, and he was succeeded as Lord Abinger by his brother Robert.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Abinger, Baron (UK, 1835)". Cracroft's Peerage. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  2. ^ "No. 27700". The London Gazette. 29 July 1904. p. 4907.
  3. ^ "No. 29333". The London Gazette. 19 October 1915. p. 10279.
  4. ^ a b "Scarlett, Shelley Leopold Lawrence". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  5. ^ García Sanz, Carolina (5 January 2018). "Intelligence and Espionage (Spain)". International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Abinger
1903–1917
Member of the House of Lords
(1903–1917) 		Succeeded by
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