He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge,[2] where he read for a BA in Economics.
[3] Having been commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1936,[2] he saw service in France, Norway and India,[2] eventually rising to become a lieutenant colonel by the time of his retirement in 1947.
[6] After the death of his father in 1943,[2] he inherited the baronial title along with Inverlochy Castle near Fort William in Scotland.
He sold Inverlochy after World War II to a Canadian whiskey merchant,[3] and bought Clees Hall,[2] a mixed farm near Alphamstone on the Essex/Suffolk border.
[2] The Boscombe Collection of Shelley's letters and manuscripts, which Scarlett worked on cataloguing, are now held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.