Description:Sir Rupert Alfred Kettle (1817-1894), Wolverhampton lawyer and judge. Born in Birmingham, he was made a Worcestershire County Court judge in 1859. He was knighted for his services in industrial arbitartion between workers and employers. During the 1860s he was a Justice of the Peace in Stafford and was Deputy Lieutenant for Stafforshire in 1866. He lived at Merridale House in Wolverhampton, and died there in 1894. Merridale House was later renamed Bantock House and is now a museum open to the public.
Etching by C.P. Stocombe after a pen and ink portrait by Frank Holl