Sir Charles Frederic Belcher OBE (11 July 1876 – 7 February 1970) was an Australian lawyer, author, British colonial jurist, and amateur ornithologist.

He was educated at Geelong Grammar School,[2] and entered Trinity College, Melbourne in 1894, where he studied law.

In 1930, he was appointed Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago and President of the Appeal Court of the West Indies, offices he held until his retirement in 1937.

[6] He was a founding member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901, and the Bird Observers Club in 1905.

[7] His son, engineer William Redmond Morrison Belcher, served during the Spanish Civil War as a driver for the British Medical Aid Committee and later as a militiaman in the Centuria Malatesta.