Sir James John Digges La Touche, KCSI (16 December 1844 – 5 October 1921) was an Irish civil servant in British India, where he spent most of his career in the North-Western Provinces.
In that province he served as a member of the Board of Revenue and Chief Secretary, and in 1897 acted as Lieutenant-Governor for six months, after the breakdown in health of Sir Anthony MacDonnell following the combat with the famine that year.
[3] He was a Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India, and was in November 1901 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh.
La Touche continued as Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh until December 1906.
[7] They had one child, Louisa France "Lola" Digges La Touche (1879 – 31 March 1884), who died age 5 on the steamship Assam returning from India.