Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Richard Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger, DSO, DL (25 November 1878 – 21 July 1943) was a British Army officer and peer.

The following year, Hugh (along with his siblings Robert, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold) were allowed to use the style The Honourable by a Royal Warrant of Precedence.

[4] He served in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916.

[5] He retired as a lieutenant colonel, and in the 1920s was commanding officer of the 59th (Home Counties) (Cinque Ports) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, of the Territorial Army.

[6] Scarlett was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Inverness in 1930.