| Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
| Walter Thorburn | |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Peebles and Selkirk |
| Termstart: | 1 July 1886 |
| Termend: | 12 January 1906 |
| Party: | Liberal Unionist Party |
| Birth Date: | 1842 |
| Death Date: | 10 November 1908 |
| Predecessor: | Charles Tennant |
| Successor: | Alexander Murray |
Sir Walter Thorburn (1842–1908) was a Scottish industrialist and Liberal Unionist Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Peebles and Selkirk in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1886 to 1906.[1]
He was the third son of Walter Thorburn, a banker of Springwood, Peebles, and his wife Jane Grieve, born 22 November 1842. He became a director of Walter Thorburn Bros, Ltd., manufacturers of woollens, and a landowner.[2] He was knighted in the 1900 New Years Honours List and awarded the insignia of a Knight Bachelor at an Investiture on 9 February 1900 at Osborne House by Queen Victoria.[3]
Thorburn died on 10 November 1908.
Thorburn married in 1871 Elizabeth Jackson Scott, daughter of David Scott of Meadowfield, Duddingston. They had a family of four sons and six daughters.