Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge and politician (born 1721)

Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet

Scottish advocate, judge, and politician (1721–1803)

Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet Stanhope, FRSE was a Scottish advocate, judge, country landowner, agriculturalist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1766 to 1775. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.