Background
Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, and a great-grandson of the 1st Baron Abinger.
Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, and a great-grandson of the 1st Baron Abinger.
He served in World War I from 1915-1916 in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He was serving at the Admiralty at the time of his death in May 1917 aged 46. He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery.
Though married to Lilia Lucy Catherine Mary White (daughter of the Right Honourable Sir William Arthur White) in 1899, they had no male heirs.