Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger

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

Lord Abinger
Commander Lord Abinger in the First World War
Birth nameShelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett
Born(1872-04-01)1 April 1872
Died23 May 1917(1917-05-23) (aged 45)
London, England
Buried
Brookwood Cemetery
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
RankCommander
Unit3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Battles/warsFirst World War

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 Percy Florence Shelley, son of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Career

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

Scarlett succeeded his second cousin as the 5th Baron Abinger 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 The 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
Grave of Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger, in Brookwood Cemetery

Scarlett married Lilia Lucy Catherine Mary White, daughter of the Right Honourable Sir William Arthur White, in 1899. They had no children, and he was succeeded as Lord Abinger by his brother Robert.

References
  1. "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. "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.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James Scarlett		 Baron Abinger
1903–1917		 Succeeded by
Robert Scarlett
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