James Horrocks (died 1772) was a Church of England clergyman, rector of Bruton Parish Church, and the sixth president of the College of William and Mary from 1764 to 1771.

[1] Horrocks was educated in Wakefield and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1755 and MA in 1758.

He became Usher at Wakefield School in 1757, but had emigrated to the North American colonies by 1762, when he became Minister of Petsworth and Kingston, Virginia.

He combined his presidency of William and Mary with rectorship of Williamsburg, Virginia.

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