| James Wanklyn | |
| Birth Name: | James Leslie Wanklyn |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1860 |
| Birth Place: | Holdenhurst, Hampshire |
| Death Place: | Lanrick Castle, Doune |
| Education: | Northampton |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Party: | Liberal Unionist |
| Office: | Member of the UK Parliament |
| Constituency: | Bradford Central |
| Predecessor: | George Shaw Lefevre |
| Successor: | George Scott Robertson |
| Term Start: | 1897 |
| Term End: | 1906 |
James Leslie Wanklyn (14 April 1860 – 6 July 1919) was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bradford Central, elected at the 1895 general election[1] and again at the following general election in 1900.[1] He did not stand at the 1906 election.
Wanklyn was born in 1860 in Holdenhurst, Hampshire,[2] to James Hibbert Wanklyn and Elizabeth Wanklyn (née Leslie).[3]
Wanklyn had numerous sporting interests. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, for whom he played one first-class match in 1885,[2] and an early leading member, from its inception in 1894, of the Ranelagh Club, noted as a polo and golf centre.[4]
He died on 6 July 1919[5] in Northampton.[2]
In August 1898, he married Laura Mary Stapylton (her first husband, Huntly Bacon, died in June 1897).[6]