Charles James Murray (29 November 1851 – 25 September 1929) was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat.

Sir Charles Augustus Murray and his American born wife Elizabeth "Elise" Wadsworth.

After being removed from the positions in the Household reforms initiated by Albert, Prince Consort, his father became a diplomat in Naples followed by consul-general in Egypt in 1846.

His maternal uncle, James S. Wadsworth, was a Union Army General during the American Civil War.

[4] He later served as Third Secretary of the Diplomatic Service and was an officer in the Ross and Cromarty Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.