Hugh Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro 7th Baron Abinger
Is

Military personnel 

From

South Africa 

Type

Military 

Gender male
Family
Children: James Scarlett8th Baron Abinger

Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Richard Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger DSO DL (25 November 1878 – 21 July 1943) was a British peer.

Life

Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 26 May 1900, and fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa from 1900–1902. Promotion to the rank of lieutenant followed on 25 March 1902. In 1904, he (along with his siblings Robert, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold) had been allowed to use the style The Honourable by a Royal Warrant of Precedence. He served in the First World War from 1914–1918 and was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order in 1916. He retired as a lieutenant colonel. Scarlett was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Inverness in 1930.

Family

Lord Abinger married Marjorie Ursula MacPhillamy in 1913, and they had three sons, James Richard Scarlett (who succeeded to the title upon his father’s death) John Leopold Campbell Scarlett and Felix Hugh Lawrence Scarlett.

Styles of address

  • 1878-1904: Mr Hugh Scarlett
  • 1904-1916: The Honourable Hugh Scarlett
  • 1916-1927: The Honourable Hugh Scarlett DSO
  • 1927-1930: The Right Honourable The Lord Abinger DSO
  • 1930-1943: The Right Honourable The Lord Abinger DSO DL
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett 		Baron Abinger
1927–1943		 Succeeded by
James Richard Scarlett
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