James Gerard (c.1740 – 1789) was a Clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

The warden was the term used by Wadham for the head of the college.

[3] He gained an ecclesiastical preferment as rector of Monks Risborough in 1783.

[4] He started his appointment at Monks Risborough on 9 July 1783 on his father's (Joseph Gerard) cession.

[2] He married and had one child and his mother was Elizabeth Reynolds.