Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Scarlett, Sir James

by Joseph Foster

Scarlett, Sir James, created D.C.L. 10 June, 1834 (son of Robert Scarlett, of Ducketts Spring, Jamaica), bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1791, K.C. 1816, M.P. Peterborough 1819.30, Malton 1830-1, Cockermouth 1831, and Norwich 1832-4, attorney-general 1827 and 1829, knighted 30 April, 1827, lord chief baron of the Exchequer (Dec.) 1834, created Baron Abinger 12 Jan., 1835, died 7 April, 1844. See Foster's Peerage.