| Christopher Fettes | |
| Office: | Cathaoirleach (Chairperson) of the Green Party |
| Term Start: | 1981 |
| Term End: | ??? |
| Predecessor: | New Office |
| Birth Place: | Bromley, Kent, England |
| Party: | Green Party |
| Education: | Clayesmore School, Dorset |
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College Dublin |
Christopher Fettes (born 1937) is an English former teacher, farmer and founder of the Irish Green Party. He is an honorary member of the International Vegetarian Union and of the World Esperanto Association.
Christopher Fettes was born in Bromley, Kent, England and educated at Clayesmore School, Dorset, and in English and French at Trinity College Dublin. He taught for a year in France and then for 37 years at Saint Columba's College, Dublin, for most of that time as a housemaster. During that period, he revived the Irish Anti-Vivisection Society and the Esperanto Association of Ireland, became an Irish citizen in 1970, and founded the Vegetarian Society of Ireland and was Secretary of the European Vegetarian Union.
In 1981, he initiated and chaired the founding meeting of the Ecology Party of Ireland, which later became the Irish Green Party.[1] He stood unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the European Parliament in 1984.[2]