Background
Scarlett succeeded his father Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger, in 1861.
Scarlett succeeded his father Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger, in 1861.
Eton College; Trinity College.
Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, 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. He visited the United States during the American Civil War He was promoted to Major in 1868, with promotions through the ranks at intervals of six, three and five years.
They had one son, James.
Their daughter Evelina, who married Major Henry Haverfield, was a suffragette and an aid worker during World War I. 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.
Gigha remained in the family"s hands until 1919. Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004).
The Scottish Islands.
Edinburgh: Canongate.