James Yorke Macgregor Scarlett, 4th Baron Abinger (13 March 1871 – 11 December 1903) was a British peer.

James Yorke Macgregor Scarlett was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[1] He was a captain in the 3rd Battery Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and saw active service in the Second Boer War, leaving England for South Africa in February 1900.

He died of heart failure caused by an accidental fall down a flight of stairs at a restaurant in Paris, France.

He succeeded his father to the title in 1892, and died unmarried without male heirs.