James Cowan (1816 – 24 November 1895)[1] was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland.
He was the son of Alexander Cowan, papermaker and philanthropist.
He was one of eleven children including Charles Cowan MP, and Sir John Cowan Bart.
[3] He was elected at the 1874 general election as a Member of Parliament for Edinburgh,[4] and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1882[4] by the procedural device of taking the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham.
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