Charles William Maxwell Heddle (c. 1812 – 29 April 1889 Cannes) was a Scottish-Sierra Leonian businessman and shipowner.
[1] Born in Sierra Leone in about 1812, Charles was the illegitimate son of John Heddle from Kirkwall and Sophy Bouchier of Sierra Leone.
Charles was educated in Kirkwall and at the Dollar Academy and in Edinburgh.
[2] He first set up in business in Banjul (Bathurst) in the Gambia in 1834.
[4] He was a cousin of Matthew Forster Heddle.