Sir George Matthew Fowlds CBE (15 September 1860[1] – 17 August 1934) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.

[3] After completing his studies in commerce he worked several jobs as a general labourer, fencer, carpenter and painter before deciding to leave Scotland.

[6] In 1890, Fowlds moved his family to Mount Albert, to a large country house known as Greystone Knowe.

[10] He immediately earned a reputation as a left-wing among Liberals and was kept out of the cabinet by Seddon, who though he would have made a good minister but for his belief in the single tax.

[11] Seddon's successor, Sir Joseph Ward, appointed Fowlds to the cabinet on condition he hold in abeyance some of his more radical views.

[11] Fowlds was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919, and appointed a Knight Bachelor, for public services, in the 1928 King's Birthday Honours.

[6][18] The personal papers of Sir George Fowlds are housed in Special Collections at the University of Auckland Library.

The extensive collection covers political, personal, business and social matters and includes letters, newspaper clippings, speech drafts, articles, sermons, accounts books, photographs and cartoons.