Sir James Falshaw, 1st Baronet JP, DL, FRSE (21 March 1810 – 14 June 1889), was a British railway engineer and politician.

[2] In June 1844, he moved to Kendal to oversee the construction of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.

In 1871, he married Jane Gibbs (b.1825) at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Nicholson Square, Edinburgh.

[3] He died at home, 14 Belgrave Crescent, in western Edinburgh[4] in June 1889, aged 79, when the baronetcy became extinct.

He is buried close to his home, in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh and has an impressive marble monument of great height and ornament over his grave.

The grave lies on the main east-west path of the northern extension to the original cemetery.