Sir Charles Fitzpatrick was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the fifth Chief Justice of Canada from 4 June 1906 to 21 October 1918, appointed directly to the role by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier without prior judicial experience, a distinction he shared only with the first Chief Justice, William Buell Richards. Born on 19 December 1851, he had earlier served as a member of Parliament for Quebec County, as Solicitor General of Canada from 1896 to 1902, and as Minister of Justice from 1902 to 1906, and after leaving the court he served as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1918 to 1923. He died on 17 June 1942.
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