| Ronald Manning Fielding | |
| Birth Date: | 7 October 1896 |
| Birth Place: | Rockingham, Nova Scotia |
| Death Place: | St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Office1: | MLA for Halifax Northwest |
| Term Start1: | 1956 |
| Term End1: | 1960 |
| Predecessor1: | new riding |
| Successor1: | Gordon H. Fitzgerald |
| Office2: | MLA for Halifax West |
| Term Start2: | 1941 |
| Term End2: | 1956 |
| Predecessor2: | George E. Hagen |
| Successor2: | Charles H. Reardon |
| Party: | Nova Scotia Liberal Party |
| Occupation: | lawyer |
Ronald Manning Fielding (October 7, 1896 – March 1, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Halifax West and Halifax Northwest in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1941 to 1960. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.[1]
Fielding was born in 1896 at Rockingham, Nova Scotia.[2] He was educated at Dalhousie University, and was a lawyer by career.[2] He was a municipal solicitor from 1931–1948, and a county prosecutor from 1933–1946.[2] He married Marion Leck in 1945.[2]
Fielding entered provincial politics in the 1941 election, winning the Halifax West riding.[3] He was re-elected in the 1945[4] and 1949 elections.[5] In December 1949, Fielding was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Municipal Affairs.[2] Fielding was re-elected in the 1953 election.[6] In January 1954, Fielding was given an additional role in cabinet as Provincial Treasurer.[2] [7] In June 1956, he was named Minister of Education.[2] In the 1956 election, Fielding was re-elected in the newly established Halifax Northwest riding.[8] Fielding was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1960, losing his seat by 27 votes to Progressive Conservative Gordon H. Fitzgerald.[9]
In 1965, Fielding was appointed to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, serving until his retirement in 1968.[2] He died at St. Petersburg, Florida on March 1, 1972.[2]