Sir James Anderson Murdoch KBE CMG (10 March 1867 – 30 January 1939) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
[1] He was born in Edinburgh to cabinetmaker Thomas Murdoch and Margaret Anderson.
He worked at a wool warehouse before migrating to Melbourne in 1884; after a period in Brisbane, he established a business in Sydney in 1893.
During World War I he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps, holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel; he was mentioned in despatches four times.
Appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Nationalist in 1923, he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1928.