Charles Jesse Kortright (9 January 1871 – 11 December 1952) was an English cricketer, who played for Essex and Free Foresters.

In his obituary in the 1953 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he was described as "probably the fastest bowler in the history of the game", a judgement supported by those who saw and faced him.

[1] He was the son of Augustus Kortright, an officer in the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and his wife Mary Jephson, daughter of the Rev.

The bowlers of his era used the yorker as their main weapon; they had bowled on some pitches just as flat as modern "shirt fronts".

This was the occasion on which Kortright, having uprooted two stumps, after Grace had shamelessly intimidated the umpire out of giving several dismissals, said: "Surely you're not going, Doc?

Another story Kortright told was of bowling a bouncer at Wallingford which flew over the batsman and was still rising as it cleared the boundary.