Sir Charles Fortescue Brickdale (1 March 1857 – 20 September 1944) was a British barrister and civil servant best known for his reform of HM Land Registry as Chief Registrar.

After attending Westminster School he matriculated to Christ Church, Oxford, and from there was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1883,[1] specialising in land law.

In 1886, he published Registration of Title to Land and how to Establish it without Cost or Compulsion, in which he argued that the relatively new land registry department, which had so far proved ineffective, could massively improve if it was to follow the Australian and Prussian models.

[2] The land registration system at the time was voluntary, and getting local organisations and conveyancers to accept was a long and difficult job.

During his time as Chief Registrar he turned the Land Registry into a fully functioning department and helped prepare the Law of Property Act 1925, which was put in place after his retirement in 1923.