James Edward Adkins FRCO (14 Dec 1867[1] - 4 January 1939) was an Irish organist and composer.
He was born on 14 December 1867 in Belfast, the son of James Adkins and Emma Ryan.
He studied at the Royal College of Music[2] and trained at Ely Cathedral under the organist, Edmund Thomas Chipp.
They had three children: His son James Francis Basil Adkins, a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, was killed in Flanders on 1 Oct 1917.
Both Basil and Eric were st Paul's Cathedral choir boys.