Sir Charles James Renault Saunders KCMG (17 October 1857 – 11 January 1931) was a South African colonial civil servant who served as the Resident Commissioner and Chief Magistrate of Zululand.
Like his mother, Sir Charles collected plants and a number of species are named after him, including Pachypodium saundersii and Ornithogalum saundersiae.
16 plant species were named in honour of Katherine Saunders and family members by Kew Gardens.
In the following years he was directed to define the boundary between Tongaland and Zululand, and in 1895 he took over the Ingwavuma district for the British crown.
The Zulus called him uMashiqela, meaning the autocrat, and by his work over thirty years he was one of the men who made Natal.