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  Sir James Yorke Scarlett - LoveToKnow 1911
In the Crimean War the 5th Dragoon Guards formed part of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade (of which Scarlett was appointed brigadier); it was sent to the Black Sea in 1854, and suffered very heavily from cholera in the camps of Varna.
For his services On this day Scarlett was promoted major-general, and in 1855 was made K.C.B. After a short absence in England he returned to the Crimea with the local rank of lieutenant-general to command the British cavalry.
After the Peace of Paris Sir James Scarlett commanded the cavalry at Aldershot until 1860, and was adjutant-general of the army from 1860 to 1865.
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 James Yorke Scarlett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, GCB, was the son of the 1st Baron Abinger, was a British general and hero of the Crimean War.
Following the Peace of Paris, Scarlett commanded the cavalry at Aldershot until 1860 and was Adjutant-general of the army from 1860 to 1865.
In retirement Scarlett became involved in politics, standing for election to Parliament in Burnley, but was beaten by the Liberal candidate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Yorke_Scarlett   (606 words)

  
 Men of Burnley
James Folds was born 6, June 1814, the son of James a well-known builder and contractor, the family lived at Woodgrove.
James Folds was said to have been on the old Town Commissioners, which came into existence in 1821, and which remained in control of the towns' affairs until the Improvement Commissioners in 1846.
James Yorke Scarlett was born 1799, the son of Lord Abinger.
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 James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (December 13, 1769 – April 17, 1844) was an English judge.
He was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property.
His second son, General Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799–1871), leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava, is dealt with in a separate article; and his elder daughter, Mary, married John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden (Lady Stratheden and Campbell) (d.
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 James Yorke Scarlett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As a young officer Scarlett was stationed at Burnley Barracks, and was billeted at a house on the site of the old Yorkshire Hotel (now demolished), facing the culvert at the corner of Gunsmith Lane, adjoining Eastgate (now Yorkshire Street).
During the Crimean War, Scarlett commanded the famous Charge of the Heavy Brigade, whose success was in stark contrast to that of his colleagues in the Light Brigade.
James Scarlett sat in the Commons from 1836 to 1840, as Conservative member for Guildford.
www.ormerod.uk.net /History/Hargreaves/james_yorke_scarlett.htm   (334 words)

  
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James Scarlett Abinger, 1st Baron (December 13, 1769 - April 17, 1844) was an English judge.
His second son, General Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799-1871), leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava, is dealt with in a separate article; and his elder daughter, Mary, married John, Baron Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden (Lady Stratheden and Campbell) (d.
See P. Scarlett, Memoir of Jaimes, 1st Lord Abinger (1877); Foss's Lives of the Judges; E. Manson, Builders of our Law (1904).
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 James Scholefield: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
See Memoirs of James Scholefield (1855), by his wife, Harriet Scholefield; Gentleman 's...son, General Sir James-Yorke-Scarlett James Yorke Scarlett James Yorke Scarlett (1799 - 1871),...
James Scholefield, his successor in the Greek professorship, brought out...
James Scholefield (November 15, 1789 - April 4, 1853), English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames.
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 Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
James Barry, driver of the Passage mail train was brought up charged with being drunk on last night while in charge of H.M.'s mails.
She leaves to-day for New York with fifty passengers, a full cargo, and the mails, which arrived from Cork at 3 o'clock, immediately after which the Etna steamed away.
James Walsh, residing in Shandon-street, applied for surgical treatment at the same institution yesterday, for a dislocation of the arm, which he sustained, it appeared, while engaged in a game of “romps” with some of his female acquaintances.
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 Martin and Caroline Davis's families - Person Page 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Byner appeared in the household of Thomas Byner in the 1841 census at Sedlescombe, Sussex.
James Byner appeared in the household of James Byner in the 1851 census at Sedlescombe Street, Sedlescombe, Sussex.
Charles James Byner appeared in the household of James Byner in the 1881 census at Egertons House, Ewhurst, Sussex.
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 HTBCeiling
Scarlett married Charlotte Anne the second daughter and coheiress of Col. John Hargreaves, of Bank Hall and Ormerod House, colliery owner whose wife Charlotte Anne was daughter and sole heiress of Laurence Ormerod of Ormerod.
James like his father became an attorney, he lived in the house on the west corner of Kings Street really 2 Freckleton Street which in 1829 was purchased for use as the Vicarage which it remained in use as until 1910 being finally demolished in 1910 to make way for the widening of Freckleton Street.
James was a Trustee of the Rebuilding of Blackburn Parish Church and presided at the inaugural meeting of the Blackburn Darwen and Bolton Railway Company, which was held in the Greenway Arms Inn at Darwen.
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 SIR JAMES YORKE SCARLE... - Online Information article about SIR JAMES YORKE SCARLE...
Scarlett was appointed brigadier); it was sent to the See also:
day Scarlett was promoted major-general, and in 1855 was made K.C.B.
James Scarlett commanded the cavalry at See also:
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 The men in charge of the British Army in the Crimea
James Scarlett, who was given command of the Heavy Brigade, was, however, quite unlike either of them.
Administered by bureaucrats, many of them grotesque in their pedantry and ineptitude, the Commissariat Department was hopelessly ill-equipped to move and supply an army of 30,000 men, and Lord Raglan at the Ordnance Office had frequently complained of its insufficiency and its lack of any reserve of trained officials.
James Filder, a man of sixty-six called from an already lengthy retirement.
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 Memorials and Monuments in Southsea (The Lost Scarlett Drinking Fountain)
We are fairly confident that we have located a single remaining stone from the base of the fountain almost buried in the earth adjacent to the junction of Pier Road and Long Curtain Road.
General Scarlett is perhaps best known for leading the charge of the Heavy Brigade during the battle of Balaclava.
The pew plaque to General Scarlett in the Royal Garrison Church.
www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /old-portsmouth/scarlett-fountain.htm   (389 words)

  
 "James Yorke" on LookSmart Collectibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James A. Yorke Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics Institute for Physical...
James Yorke coined the phrase "Chaos Theory." He's this year's winner of the prestigious Japan...
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia James Yorke Scarlett Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799 - 1871), British general, was the second son of the 1st Baron Abinger.
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 James Yorke Scarlett
Sir James Yorke Scarlett, GCB (1799 – 1871), second son of the 1st Baron Abinger, was a British general.
Identifies James the Less with James the Apostle, son of Alpheus, and with James the brother of the Lord.
Researching the family of George Washington James, born in Missouri, perhaps Joplin and died in Bristow, Oklahoma in 1929 or 1930.
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 Baron Abinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was created in 1835 for Sir James Scarlett, the Lord Cheif Baron of the Exchequer.
James Yorke Macgregor Scarlett, 4th Baron Abinger (1871-1903)
Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger (1876-1927)
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 Scarlett Coat of Arms
While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the name of the father and mother respectively, are the most common form of a hereditary surname in Scotland, occupational surnames also emerged during the late Middle Ages.
The surname Scarlett was an occupational name for a person who dyed bright fabrics.
Interestingly, the name Scarlett was derived from the Old French word escarlet, meaning scarlet, and indicating one of the bright colors in which the bearer dealt.
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 James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger Details, Meaning James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger Article and Explanation Guide
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger Details, Meaning James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger Article and Explanation Guide
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
This is an Article on James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger.
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 Lesley Hargraves' email of 17 July 2001
James' parents were James Hargreaves (born 1716) > and Elizabeth Birtwistle.
This James' parents were Henry > Hargreaves (born about 1690) of Newchurch in Rossendale who > married Jane Hoult.
She had two sons, James > and Richard and I have also not been able to find records of > these births.
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 Scarlett Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Scarlett coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
We encourage you to study the Scarlett genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest.
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 Soldiers of the Queen - Home Servcie
Army at the age of 14 on 9 August, 1852.
Regiment of Foot was granted for a sum of £450 by the
Yorke Scarlett, KCB on the Parade Ground at Southsea, Hants on 12 March,
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 Alfred Tennyson - Poetry Archive
This was written much later in 1882 at the prompting of a friend which is perhaps why it fails to capture the white-hot creative burst of the first poem.
The "three hundred" mentioned are the men of the Heavy Brigade and their commander, Sir James Yorke Scarlett, but the poem never caught the public's imagination.
Nevertheless, it is of historical interest to hear the two poems side by side which we're able to do thanks to a remarkable recording made in 1890.
www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1569   (634 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Christoph Joseph Clemens Maria Herzog in Bayern and others
Sir James Yorke Scarlett was born on 1 February 1799 in Burnley, Lancashire, England.
He was the son of Sir James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger and Louise Henrietta Campbell.
Sir James Yorke Scarlett, son of Sir James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger and Louise Henrietta Campbell, on 19 December 1835.
www.thepeerage.com /p133.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Crimean War Research Society - History of the War
Another strong force of Russian cavalry was moving towards British forces, this time the Heavy Cavalry Brigade was the focus of its attention.
General Sir James Yorke Scarlett led the men of the Heavy Brigade in a gallant uphill charge, and drove the Cossacks off.
Whilst these actions were taking place, the Russians were calmly removing the British guns from the redoubts along the Causeway Heights which had been abandoned by the Turks, and Lord Raglan was desperately sending orders to his Light Cavalry Brigade and to his infantry to take action to prevent this.
www.crimeanwar.org /cwrs-overview.html   (1981 words)

  
 Lieutenant General Sir James Yorke Scarlett GCB
He took command in Aldershot after being Adjutant-General from 1860.
Yorke Scarlett died, aged seventy-two, in December 1871. ; A life-size memorial can be seen in the Royal Garrison Church; the soldiers depicted supporting him are troopers of his former regiments – the 18th Hussars and 5th Dragoon Guards.
Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8UJ
www.hants.gov.uk /museum/aldershot/biography/scarlett.html   (100 words)

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