James Francis Hatfield Harter (1854 - 20 October 1910) was an English landowner and administrator.
[5] Harter was an army officer in the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment, where he was appointed major on 17 June 1896.
[6] He was lieutenant-colonel in command of the regiment from 30 January 1900 until he resigned on 20 September 1902, when he was granted the honorary rank of colonel.
[2] After his death in 1910, Cranfield Village Hall was built in his memory the following year, and opened in 1912.
They had a daughter Violet Harter, who married Esmé Arkwright.