Sir James Jamieson Thorburn CMG (1864 – 14 September 1929) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of the Gold Coast (today's Ghana) from 1910 to 1912.
[1][2] James Thorborn was the son of William Thorburn of Edinburgh and Ruth, widow of R. Bertram Parsey.
Educated at Edinburgh Collegiate School, he entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1886.
[2] He succeeded John Rodger as Governor of the Gold Coast on 21 November 1910.
[4] Sir Philip Crampton Smyly served under Thorburn.