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"1st Baron Abinger"James Scarlett Hand Written Note:
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James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, PC (13 December1769– 17 April 1844) was an Englishlawyer, politician and judge. Scarlett was born in Jamaica,where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property. In the summer of 1785 he wassent to Englandto complete his education at Hawkshead Grammar School and afterwards atTrinity College, Cambridge, taking hisB.A. degree in 1789. Having entered the Inner Templehe took the advice of Samuel Romilly, studied law on his own for ayear, and then was taught by George Wood. He was called to the bar in 1791,and joined the northern circuit and the Lancashire sessions. Though Scarletthad no professional connections, he gradually obtained a large practice,ultimately confining himself to the Court of King's Bench and the northerncircuit. He took silkin 1816, and from this time till the close of 1834 he was the most successfullawyer at the bar; he was particularly effective before a jury, and his incomereached £18,500, a large sum for that period. He first entered parliament in1819 as Whig member for Peterborough, representingthat constituency with a short break (1822–1823) till 1830, when he was electedfor the borough of Malton. He became Attorney General, and wasmade a Knight Bachelor when Canning formed hisministry in 1827; and though he resigned when the Duke of Wellington cameinto power in 1828, he resumed office in 1829 and went out with the Duke in1830. His opposition to the Reform Billcaused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he waselected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 andthen in 1832 for Norwich, for which he satuntil the dissolution of parliament in 1835. He was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequerin 1834, and presided in that court for more than nine years. He was appointedto the Privy Council at the endof that year. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Abinger, ofAbinger in the County of Surrey and of the City of Norwich in 1835, takinghis title from the Surreyestate he had bought in 1813. The qualities which brought him success at thebar were not equalled on the bench; he had a reputation for unfairness, andcomplaints were made about his domineering attitude towards juries. While hewas studying in England, he became the guardian of Edward Moulton, who later assumed his mother's family name, and becamethe father of the poet Elizabeth Barrett, later Elizabeth BarrettBrowining. The Scarletts and the Barretts had been friends for many years inJamaica, and it seems natural that James Scarlett would have been selected tokeep an eye on young Moulton, while the boy was at school in England. In a noteprefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, RobertBrowning 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 hefrequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit."

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