Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger


Commander Shelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger, was a British peer.
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 Percy Florence Shelley, son of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Life

Scarlett served as an Honorary Attaché in Stockholm from 1897 to 1899.
He succeeded his second cousin in 1903. In 1904, a Royal Warrant of Precedence was issued, which allowed Scarlett's siblings to be styled The Honourable.
He served in World War I from 1914 holding the rank of captain and honorary major in the 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. On 17 October 1915, Scarlett was awarded a temporary commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 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.
He was serving at the Admiralty at the time of his death in May 1917 aged 45. He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

Marriage

Though married to Lilia Lucy Catherine Mary White in 1899, they had no male heirs. Thus, Lord Abinger was succeeded by his brother Robert at his death.