Researching Martin Kettle
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2620 people with the Kettle surname? In that year Kettle was ranked number 1500 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Martin means "Warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Martin Kettle on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Martin Kettle and the Kettle Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kettle Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Kettle family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 2881 people with the Kettle surname in the UK? Kettle is now ranked number 1868 for popularity in the UK. |
Kettle Family Tree Databases
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Kettle Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Kettle surname in the USA? Kettle is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle
Martin James Kettle (born 7 September 1949) is a British journalist and author. The son of two prominent communist activists Arnold Kettle (best remembered as a literary critic, 1916–86) and Margot Kettle (née Gale, 1916–1995), Martin Kettle was educated at Leeds Modern School and Balliol College, Oxford University.
Kettle worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties (now known as Liberty) as a research officer from 1973. He then began his career in journalism as home affairs correspondent for New Society (1977–1981) and moved to The Sunday Times in 1981, working as a political correspondent for three years. He has been with The Guardian since 1984 and also wrote regularly for Marxism Today in its later years. He writes a column on classical music in Prospect magazine.
Kettle is best known as a columnist for The Guardian, where he is assistant editor, having worked as the newspaper's Washington D.C. bureau chief 1997–2001. He was formerly a leader writer (1993–1997) and chief leader writer 2001 onwards. Martin Kettle has often defended New Labour and Tony Blair (a personal friend) – though not over the Iraq War. However, soon after the 2010 general election, Kettle wrote that David Cameron's Conservative-led Coalition had had a positive effect on the country. He has been dismissed by John Pilger as Blair's "most devoted promoter".
Kettle has a low opinion of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Kettle wrote that "[t]he immediate effect of the judgment [when the Supreme Court declared the prorogation of Parliament invalid] is devastating for Johnson. It is expressed so cogently and unambiguously that it will be difficult for him to wriggle out of it – even though he is certainly foolish enough to try."
In March 2021 Kettle wrote of the current Chancellor:"Sunak wants to deploy the financial heft of the Treasury to reinstate the UK in the heart of Scotland's economic and political conversation.."
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