Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes, GCMG, CB (4 September 1858 – 22 December 1936) was the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
[2] He was subsequently a scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford where he took a second-class in Classical Moderations in 1879.
He was promoted First Class Clerk, after long service as private secretary, in 1896.
He went on to be appointed as Imperial Secretary and Accountant to Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa, in 1897.
In 1900 he was made Secretary to the Transvaal Administration and he returned to the Colonial Office as Principal Clerk in 1902.