Charles Ryle Fay

Charles Ryle Fay (13 January 1884 – 19 November 1961) was a noted British economic historian. He was a strong advocate of co-operation, workers' rights and women's rights.

He was educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student alongside John Maynard Keynes. The two remained friends until Keynes' death. One of his students, Austin Robinson, described him as an "exuberant, argumentative, devoted pupil of Marshall, but almost wholly innocent of any understanding of economic theory."

Fay's papers are held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

Works Co-operation at home and abroad: a description and analysis, 1908 Copartnership in industry, 1913 Life and labour in the nineteenth century; being the substance of lectures delivered at Cambridge University in the year 1919 to students of economics, among whom were officers of the Royal Navy and students from the Army of the United States, 1920 Great Britain from Adam Smith to the present day; an economic and social survey, 1928 Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932, 1934 English economic history, mainly since 1700, Cambridge: Heffer, 1940 The corn laws and social England, 1951 Huskisson and his age, 1951 Palace of industry, 1851; a study of the Great Exhibition and its fruits, 1951 Round about industrial Britain, 1830-1860, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1952 Adam Smith and the Scotland of his day, 1956 Life and labour in Newfoundland, 1956