James Edward Crombie

James Edward Crombie FRSE LLD (22 October 1862 – 6 August 1932) was a Scottish philanthropist, meteorologist and seismologist.

He then studied at King's College in Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1882, and thereafter becoming a Company Director in the family firm of Grandholm Woollen Manufacturing Works.

He explored much of Europe (probably with his brother John) and wrote on many topics, with a special interest in death and burial customs.

He was also a keen amateur meteorologist and seismologist, with a large collection of scientific apparatus relating to these subjects, housed in a specially constructed laboratory on his family estate.

He gave financial support to the University of Oxford in their investigations of seismology, funding projects under Herbert Hall Turner.