Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Richard Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger DSO

Distinguished Service Order

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 (1878 – 1943) was a British peer.

Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

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, and he fought in the Boer War

Second Boer War

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 in South Africa

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 from 1900-1902. He served in World War I

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 from 1914-1918 and was awarded the DSO

Distinguished Service Order

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.

Lord Abinger married Marjorie Ursula MacPhillany in 1913, and they had at least one son, James

James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger

Lieutenant-Colonel James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, DL was a British peer.Scarlett was the son of Hugh and his wife Marjorie. He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery. In 1968, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for...

, who succeeded to the title upon his father's death.