Charles Kettle

Charles Cargill Kettle (4 June 1850 – 17 December 1918) was a New Zealand cricketer, lawyer and judge. He played four first-class matches for Otago between 1868–69 and 1871–72. He was the first person born in New Zealand to be appointed a judge.

Kettle was born in Dunedin on 4 June 1850, He was educated at Nelson College from 1862 to 1863 and then at Otago Boys' High School. After leaving school, he was articled to Dunedin lawyer James Macassey in 1868, and admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1873. He transferred to Auckland in about 1901, and became stipendiary magistrate there when the district courts were abolished.