Background
He was second son of Joshua Fielden, brother of Thomas Fielden, and grandson of John Fielden of Todmorden, who were all members of parliament.
He was second son of Joshua Fielden, brother of Thomas Fielden, and grandson of John Fielden of Todmorden, who were all members of parliament.
Fielden was educated at Wellington College and in France.
He was later a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, serving as chairman of its board of directors from 1919 to 1923, when it was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, of which he became subsequently deputy-chairman. He was also chairman of the local board of directors of the Alliance Insurance Company at Shrewsbury. He did not stand for Parliament again until the 1924 general election, when he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Exchange division of Manchester.
He was re-elected in 1929 and 1931, and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1935 general election when he was then, at 78, the oldest Member of Parliament. He was a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire and Shropshire, becoming High Sheriff of the latter county in 1911.
Fielden was Master of Fox Hounds of the South Oxfordshire Hunt from 1887 to 1894.
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He trained as a civil engineer, becoming an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and employed by the Thames Conservancy in Oxfordshire.
He was elected a member of Shropshire County Council in 1916, becoming a County Alderman in 1927, and was chairman of its finance committee from 1920 to 1940.