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SCARLETT, Robert Richard James

SCARLETT, Robert Richard James

Male 1737 - 1798  (60 years)

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  • Name SCARLETT, Robert Richard James  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Born 19 Sep 1737  Saint James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 11] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 18 Mar 1798  St. James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 11] 
    Buried Montego Bay, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 11] 
    Person ID I23760  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 

    Father SCARLETT, William James,   b. 1710, St. James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Oct 1777, St James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother HINE, Grace,   b. 1719, St James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1819, Chatham, St James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 100 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F6257  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ANGLIN, Elizabeth,   b. 25 Jun 1747, Paradise, Hanover, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Aug 1828, Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Children 
     1. SCARLETT, Hon Sir John Alfred,   b. 1757, London, City of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jan 1847, Florence, Dawn, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years)  [natural]
     2. SCARLETT, Grace Anglin,   b. 29 Apr 1766, Trelawny, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1793, Trelawny, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 26 years)  [natural]
     3. SCARLETT, Philip Anglin,   b. 1768, Duckett's Spring, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1823  (Age 55 years)  [natural]
     4. SCARLETT, Sir James,   b. 13 Dec 1769, of Ducketts Spri,St James,Jamaica,West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1844, Edmonds, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)  [natural]
     5. SCARLETT, Mary Anglin,   b. 6 Feb 1772, St. James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1783, Hanover, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 10 years)  [natural]
     6. SCARLETT, John Robert,   b. 1773, Of Duckett's Spring Estate, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown  [natural]
     7. SCARLETT, Robert,   b. 1775, Duckets Spring, St. James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1839, Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)  [natural]
     8. SCARLETT, William Anglin,   b. 24 Jun 1777, Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1831, Grove Town, Manchester, Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)  [natural]
     9. SCARLETT, Grace Anglin,   b. 19 Mar 1784,   d. Mar 1785  (Age 0 years)  [natural]
     10. SCARLETT, Abinger,   b. Jamaica Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1844, Bury St. Edmund's, , Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F6251  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Robert R J Scarlett    		Robert R J Scarlett

  • Notes 
    • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      James Scarlett
      1st Baron Abinger

      Painting of Scarlett by Martin Archer Shee
      Born
      13 December 1769
      Jamaica
      Died
      17 April 1844 (aged 74)
      Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
      Alma mater
      Trinity College, Cambridge (BA)
      Children
      5, including Robert, James, and Peter
      Relatives
      William Anglin Scarlett (brother)

      James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, PC (13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844) was an English lawyer, politician and judge.
      Early life
      James Scarlett was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property. In the summer of 1785 he was sent to England to complete his education at Hawkshead Grammar School and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1789.[1] Having entered the Inner Temple he took the advice of Samuel Romilly, studied law on his own for a year, and then was taught by George Wood.[2] He was called to the bar in 1791, and joined the northern circuit and the Lancashire sessions.[3]
      Legal and political career
      Though Scarlett had no professional connections, he gradually obtained a large practice, ultimately confining himself to the Court of King's Bench and the northern circuit. He took silk in 1816, and from this time till the close of 1834 he was the most successful lawyer at the bar; he was particularly effective before a jury, and his income reached £18,500, a large sum for that period. He first entered parliament in 1819 as Whig member for Peterborough, representing that constituency with a short break (1822–1823) till 1830, when he was elected for the borough of Malton. He became Attorney General, and was made a Knight Bachelor when Canning formed his ministry in 1827;[4] and though he resigned when the Duke of Wellington came into power in 1828, he resumed office in 1829 and went out with the Duke in 1830.[3]
      His opposition to the Reform Bill caused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he was elected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 and then in 1832 for Norwich, for which he sat until the dissolution of parliament in 1835. He was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1834, and presided in that court for more than nine years. He was appointed to the Privy Council at the end of that year.[5] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Abinger, of Abinger in the County of Surrey and of the City of Norwich in 1835,[6] taking his title from the Surrey estate he had bought in 1813. The qualities which brought him success at the bar were not equalled on the bench; he had a reputation for unfairness, and complaints were made about his domineering attitude towards juries.[3]
      While he was studying in England, he became the guardian of Edward Moulton, who later assumed his mother's family name, and became the father of the poet Elizabeth Barrett, later Elizabeth Barrett Browining. The Scarletts and the Barretts had been friends for many years in Jamaica, and it seems natural that James Scarlett would have been selected to keep an eye on young Moulton, while the boy was at school in England. In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that "On the early death of his father, he (Edward Moulton) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit."
      Family
      Lord Abinger was twice married (the second time only six months before his death), and by his first wife (d. 1829) had three sons and two daughters, the title passing to his eldest son, Robert. His second son was General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava. His third son, Peter Campbell Scarlett, was a diplomat. His elder daughter, Mary, married John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden. Sir William Anglin Scarlett, Lord Abinger's younger brother, was chief justice of Jamaica. While attending the Norfolk circuit on 2 April, Lord Abinger was suddenly seized with apoplexy, and died in his lodgings at Bury St Edmunds.[3][7]
      A more distant relation was the painter John Scarlett Davis.
      Cases
      • Fouldes v. Willoughby (1841)
      Property
      In 1836, Scarlett was awarded compensation of £626 2s 2d for 30 slaves on the Spring Grove estate in Manchester, Jamaica.[8]
      References
      1 "Scarlett, James (SCRT785J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
      2 "Scarlett, James (1769-1849)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
      3  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Abinger, James Scarlett, 1st Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 63. This cites:
      ◦ Peter Campbell Scarlett, A Memoir of the Right Honorable James, First Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, 1877
      ◦ Edward Foss, Lives of the Judges
      ◦ Edward Manson, Builders of our Law, 1904
      4 "No. 18359". The London Gazette. 8 May 1827. p. 1010.
      5 "No. 19221". The London Gazette. 16 December 1834. p. 2266.
      6 "No. 19228". The London Gazette. 9 January 1835. p. 42.
      7 Fisher, David R. "SCARLETT, James (1769-1844), of Abinger Hall, Dorking, Surr. and New Street, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
      8 "Details of Claim | Legacies of British Slave-ownership". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
      External links
      • Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Abinger
      • Portraits of James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger at the National Portrait Gallery, London

  • Sources 
    1. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Caribbean Deaths and Burials, 1790-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLP9-BM7 : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Grace Scarlett, 14 Jan 1793; citing St. James, Jamaica, reference item3 p313; FHL m.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Grace Scarlett, "Caribbean Deaths and Burials, 1790-1906"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLP9-BM7

    2. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-YLB : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Mary Anglin Scarlett, ; citing Jamaica, reference p. 42; FHL microfilm 1,224,327.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Mary Anglin Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-YLB

    3. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-BQW : 11 February 2018), Robert in entry for Robert Scarlett, 13 Apr 1773; citing Hanover, Jamaica, reference p. 44; FHL microfilm 1,224,3.
      Robert in entry for Robert Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-BQW

    4. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org.
      Legacy NFS Source: Robert Richard James Scarlett - Published information: burial: ; Montego Bay, Jamaica

    5. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:73PR-2G3Z : 19 December 2018), Robert Richard James Scarlett, ; Burial, , Saint James Parish Church Cemetery; citing record ID 192967642, Find a Grave, http.
      Robert Richard James Scarlett, "Find A Grave Index"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:73PR-2G3Z

    6. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-YSW : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for James Scarlett, ; citing Jamaica, reference p. 39; FHL microfilm 1,224,327.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for James Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-YSW

    7. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-SVPX : 18 March 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Abinger Scarlett, 13 Apr 1844; citing Obituary, Norwich, Norfolk, England,.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Abinger Scarlett, "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-SVPX

    8. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNG-1WB : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Elizabeth Anglin Scarlett, ; citing Jamaica, reference item 3 p43; FHL microfilm 1,2.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Elizabeth Anglin Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNG-1WB

    9. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q26M-SF3G : 18 March 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for James Scarlett, 12 Apr 1844; citing Obituary, Leicester, Leicestershire, E.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for James Scarlett, "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q26M-SF3G

    10. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNG-GZX : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for William Anglin Scarlett, ; citing Jamaica, reference item3 p22; FHL microfilm 1,224,.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for William Anglin Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNG-GZX

    11. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 07 June 2019, 21:12), entry for Robert Richard James Scarlett(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZTC-VPT); contributed by various users. PersonID LZTC-VPT.
      Robert Richard James Scarlett
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZTC-VPT

    12. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-RFX : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Grace Anglin Scarlett, ; citing Jamaica, reference p. 33; FHL microfilm 1,224,327.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Grace Anglin Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-RFX

    13. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Caribbean Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5SS-DYK : 10 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Elizabeth Anglin Scarlett, ; citing St James, Jamaica, reference ; FHL microfilm 1.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Elizabeth Anglin Scarlett, "Caribbean Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5SS-DYK

    14. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-RBR : 11 February 2018), Robert Scarlett in entry for Philip Anglin Scarlett, ; citing Jamaica, reference p. 36; FHL microfilm 1,224,327.
      Robert Scarlett in entry for Philip Anglin Scarlett, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNNJ-RBR


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