Sir Charles William Fielding, KBE (4 October 1863 – 9 April 1941) was a British businessman, landowner, farmer, writer and civil servant.
Born on 4 October 1863, he was the only son of Thomas Mantell Fielding (1834–1914) and Jean Eleanora, née Ewing (died 1898).
A direct male line descendant of the novelist Henry Fielding and the aristocrat George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond,[1] he was the owner of 3,000 acres of land in Sussex, half of which were farmed.
[2] During the First World War, that company supplied pyrites to the Allies at discounted prices.
[2] For his war services, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1917.