Sir James Anderson Scott Watson CBE, FRSE (16 November 1889 – 1966) was a 20th-century Scottish agriculturalist.
He then went to the United States to study agriculture at the University of Iowa, gaining an MSc in 1910.
In the World War I he served in the Lothian and Border Horse Yeomanry for a year and was then commissioned at the rank of 2nd Lieutenant into the Royal Field Artillery where he won the Military Cross for bravery.
In 1925 he transferred to be the Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy at the University of Oxford replacing William Somerville.
[5] Watson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).