William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger
Lieutenant General William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger CB, DL (30 August 1826 – 16 January 1892), was a British peer and soldier.
William Scarlett 3rd Baron Abinger | |
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 Baron Abinger (c. 1865) | |
| Birth name | William Frederick Scarlett |
| Born | 30 August 1826 Abinger, England |
| Died | 16 January 1892 (aged 65) Fort William, Scotland |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/ | British Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Battles/wars | Crimean War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
| Spouse(s) |
Helen Magruder (m. 1863) |
| Children | 3, including James, Ella, and Evelina |
| Relations |
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Education
Lord Abinger was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
Military career
He 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 the 1877 Birthday Honours, Lord Abinger was appointed to the Order of the Bath as a Companion (CB).[3]
Family
In 1863, he married Helen Magruder, daughter of Commodore George Allan Magruder, of the United States Navy, and niece of John B. Magruder. They had one son, James and two daughters, Ella, who studied medicine at London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital and became the first female doctor in the state of Bloemfontein, South Africa,[4] and Evelina, an activist for women's suffrage and an aid worker during World War I, who married Major Henry Haverfield.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7]
References
- "Scarlett, the Hon. William Frederick (SCRT845WF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- 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.
- "No. 24467". The London Gazette. 2 June 1877. p. 3498.
- Potgieter, S V (1998). "History of Medicine: Medicine in Bloemfontein - anecdotes from the turn of the century". South African Medical Journal. 3 (88): 272–274.
- Crawford, Elizabeth (September 2004). "Haverfield , Evelina (1867–1920)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- 'Parishes: Abinger' A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 129–134. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 39.
- Bibliography
- Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
- Williamson, David (1995). "William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger". Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. London: Debrett's Peerage Ltd.