Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, 8th Baronet was a journalist, author and historian who served as talks assistant for the BBC Scottish Region from 1934 to 1940. He was Keeper of the Records of Scotland from 1949 to 1969.
In 1932, the BBC's then Scottish Director, David Cleghorn Thomson, considered persuading Fergusson to join the BBC, but an approach was not made until the following year, by which time Thomson had been replaced by Melville Dinwiddie.