William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger

Lord Abinger
Born	30 August 1826 Abinger, England
Died	16 January 1892 (aged 65) Fort William, Scotland
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	Crimean War Battle of Alma Battle of Balaclava Battle of Inkerman
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath

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

1. "Scarlett, the Hon. William Frederick (SCRT845WF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Congress, Library of. "Falmouth, Va. Lord Abinger (William F. Scarlett, 3d Baron Abinger, Lt. Col. Scots Fusilier Guards) and group at headquarters, Army of the Potomac". Photographs from the main eastern theater of War, Burnside and Hooker,November 1862 – April 1863. Library of Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
3. Crawford, Elizabeth (September 2004). "Haverfield , Evelina (1867–1920)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
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
• Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Abinger