Hugh Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger

Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Richard Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger DSO (1878–1943) was a British peer.

Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett. He was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 26 May 1900, and fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa from 1900-1902. Promotion to the rank of Lieutenant followed on 25 March 1902. He served in World War I from 1914–1918 and was awarded the DSO. He retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel.

Lord Abinger married Marjorie Ursula MacPhillamy in 1913, and they had three sons, James Richard Scarlett, who succeeded to the title upon his father's death, John Leopold Campbell Scarlett and Felix Hugh Lawrence Scarlett.