Evelyn Elizabeth James CBE DStJ (née Forbes; 1867 – 13 May 1929), known as Mrs Willie James, was a Scottish socialite known in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods as the hostess of house parties and shooting weekends at the West Dean House country estate in Sussex.

She became known as Mrs Willie James and was one of the great hostesses of the period, often entertaining the Prince of Wales as a guest, and other notables including the King of Spain.

[4] Her daughter Audrey Evelyn James Coats married American Marshall Field III.

After the death of her husband in 1912, Evelyn married Major John Chaytor Brinton the following year; the marriage was annulled in 1927.

In the 1922 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her role as chairman and founder of the Housing Association for Officers' Families[5] and contributions to philanthropy.