Sir Peter William Shelley Yorke Scarlett KCMG KCVO (30 March 1905 – 28 December 1987) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Norway and to the Holy See.
He served in Brussels from 1938 to 1940 when he was captured by enemy forces but, as a diplomat, was returned to the UK where he resumed duties at the Foreign Office until 1944 when he was appointed to the embassy in Paris under Sir Alfred Duff Cooper.
In 1946 he moved to Allied Forces Headquarters at Caserta, southern Italy, then was Counsellor at the Foreign Office 1947–50 and Inspector of HM Diplomatic Service Establishments 1950–52.
Scarlett was British Permanent Representative on the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1952–55; HM Ambassador to Norway 1955–60;[1] and finally Minister to the Holy See 1960–65.
SCARLETT, Sir Peter (William Shelley Yorke), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, retrieved 18 Feb 2012