James William Thirtle (1854 – Stratford, London, December 5, 1934), LLD, DD, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, was editor of The Christian, 1887–1934. J. W. Thirtle's father was converted to the Christadelphian faith while Thirtle was a child, and Thirtle himself was baptised in 1875. In 1881, he published in The Christadelphian magazine a defence of two of the later works of John Thomas, Eureka and Phanerosis. In 1887 or 1888, Thirtle became editor of The Christian magazine. Thirtle was a friend of J. B. Rotherham and gave the address at his funeral in 1910.