(1842 – 5 January 1904) was a schoolteacher, remembered as the first principal of Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, South Australia.
Fiddian was born in Castle Donington, a son of English Wesleyan Methodist Rev.
He was for a short time mathematics master at Wesley College, Sheffield, then was brought out to South Australia in 1869 to take up an appointment as foundation headmaster of Prince Alfred College, which then operated from a schoolroom behind the Pirie Street Methodist Church, the Kent Town campus not yet ready for occupation.
For a year he taught mathematics at Geelong College[5] before founding Creswick Grammar School, of which he was proprietor and headmaster from 1872 to 1903.
Their children included: Samuel Fiddian died in Liverpool, England, as he was about to return to Australia.