Sir James Sheppard (c. 1681–1730), of Watton Court, Honiton, and , Chudleigh, Devon, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1711 and 1730. Sheppard was the eldest son of James Sheppard of Honiton, attorney-at-law and his wife Mary Walrond of Payhembury, near Honiton. He was admitted at the Middle Temple in 1700 and called to the bar in 1705. By licence dated 16 March 1704, he married Elizabeth Fowler. He was appointed as Recorder of Honiton in 1713 and was a serjeant-at-law from 1724 to his death.