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

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, son of

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and

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Career

Scarlett served as an Honorary

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in Stockholm from 1897 to 1899. Scarlett succeeded his second cousin as the 5th Baron Abinger in 1903. In 1904, a

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was issued, which allowed Scarlett's siblings (

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, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold) to be styled ''The Honourable''. Scarlett served in the

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from 1914, holding the rank of captain and honorary major in the 3rd Battalion,

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. On 17 October 1915, Scarlett was awarded a temporary commission in the

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with the honorary rank of commander. Serving under the Director of the Intelligence Division, he ran intelligence gathering operations in the south of neutral Spain. Scarlett was serving at the Admiralty at the time of his death in May 1917, aged 45. He was buried at

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Marriage

Scarlett married Lila Lucy Catherine Mary Geijer (née White), daughter of Sir William Arthur White, in 1899. They had no children, and he was succeeded as Lord Abinger by his brother

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