Sydney Gedge (16 October 1829 – 6 April 1923) was a British Conservative politician and prominent lay member of the Church of England.

Sydney Gedge, and was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

He returned to the House of Commons in 1895 as member for Walsall, defeating the sitting Liberal Arthur Hayter.

[6] In 1900 Hayter regained the Walsall seat, ending Gedge's parliamentary career.

[8] Gedge was deeply involved in the Church of England, being a diocesan lay reader of London and Rochester and a member of the House of Laymen of the General Synod.