James Glassford (1771 – 1845) was a Scottish legal writer and traveller.
Glassford was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1793, and became sheriff-depute of Dumbartonshire.
He succeeded to Dougalston on the death of his elder brother Henry in 1819.
Glassford was one of the commissioners of the Royal Commission of inquiry into the state of education in Ireland,[1] and in that capacity visited Ulster, Leinster, and Munster in 1824, and Connacht in 1826.
He also acted as one of the commissioners appointed (1815) for inquiring into the duties and emoluments of the clerks and other officers of the courts of justice in Scotland.