Walter Charles James, 1st Baron Northbourne (3 June 1816 – 4 February 1893), known as Sir Walter James, 2nd Baronet, from 1829 to 1884, was a British Member of Parliament. James was the son of John James, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, and grandson of . He succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy in 1829 and in 1837 he was elected to the House of Commons for Kingston upon Hull as a Tory, a seat he held until 1847. He acquired in Kent in 1850 and commissioned George Devey to oversee extensions and alterations to the house.