Sir Frederic William Eggleston (17 October 1875 – 12 November 1954) was an Australian lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer.

The eldest son of lawyer John Waterhouse Eggleston and his wife, Emily, his grandfather was the Methodist minister Rev.

His mother died early in his life in 1884 and his father married Ada Crouch in 1887.

For his role as Chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission, in the 1941 King's Birthday honours he was made a Knight Bachelor.

[3] Eggleston met with British biochemist and Sinologist Joseph Needham at chance encounter in a monastery in China.