James Tait Plowden-Wardlaw KC (1873 – 19 November 1963) was a barrister and a priest of the Church of England.
James Tait Wardlaw was born in 1873, baptized on 28 Jan 1874, the son of James Campbell Wardlaw of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, and his second wife Augusta Ellen Chichele-Plowden.
He served as an advocate in the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, South Africa in 1901 and of the Transvaal, 1903.
He married, 1904, Edith Hay, second daughter of Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell, MP for Ayr Burghs, and had issue.
Ivan Clutterbuck recalls Plowden-Wardlaw at Beckenham: "He was an excellent preacher, no doubt due to his legal training.