Henry Victor Marie Ghislain, Count Carton de Wiart (1869–1951) was a Belgian writer and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 20 November 1920 to 16 December 1921.

[1] Carton de Wiart attended the Twelfth Inter-Parliamentary Conference, held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, meeting members of different parliaments both in Europe and the Americas, and developing contacts in the United States that would stand him in good stead in 1914.

In 1908, Carton de Wiart was among the members of parliament who insisted that Belgium assume authority over the Congo Free State in order to put an end to the misrule that had characterised King Leopold's private commercial government there.

From 1919 to 1920 he served as deputy speaker of the Chamber of Representatives, in 1919 also undertaking a diplomatic mission to The Hague to restore strained relations with the Netherlands.

[1][4] After over a decade as a backbencher, Carton de Wiart returned to government in December 1932 as Minister of Social Welfare, serving until January 1934.

After the war, in 1948, he introduced the parliamentary bill for full women's suffrage in Belgium (the legal basis for which had already been laid by the government he had headed in 1920-1921).

Carton de Wiart was an active author throughout his life, not only writing for newspapers, literary reviews, and legal journals, but also publishing novels and memoirs.