James Joseph Meadows (1 September 1835 – 12 December 1914), Protestant Christian missionary to China and one of the first missionaries with the China Inland Mission. Meadows was converted to Christianity at Perth, Scotland. He later lived at Barnsley, Yorkshire. Martha died suddenly at Ningbo in 1863, and Meadows later proposed marriage by letter to her friend, Elizabeth Rose. Upon Miss Rose's arrival with the Lammermuir Party at Shanghai on 30 September 1866, the couple were married in October 1866 in Ningbo. Elizabeth Meadows died on 3 November 1890.