Charles Mills (26 November 1866 – 26 July 1948) was a cricketer who played in one Test for South Africa in 1892.^[1]

Born in London, to Charles Mills a writing engraver and Sarah Jane Wilkinson, Charles Mills was educated at Dulwich College in London. After leaving school he briefly studied art before deciding to become a professional cricketer.^[2] A medium-pace bowler and a steady batsman, he played for Surrey from 1885 to 1896, mostly for the club's secondary teams, but including two first-class matches in 1888.^[3]

With his Surrey colleague Bill Brockwell, Mills went to South Africa for the 1889–90 season in the hope of finding a coaching position, which they both did in Kimberley.^[2] In Mills's first match for the Kimberley Club he scored 297, which was at the time a record score in South Africa.^[2] He played a first-class match for Kimberley later that season, when Brockwell took 10 wickets in an innings victory over Natal.^[4]

In 1890-91 Mills took up a coaching position in Cape Town, where he stayed for four years, playing in the Western Province team that won the Currie Cup in 1893–94.^[5] In March 1892 he played for South Africa in the Test against England, scoring 4 and 21 in a match in which the highest score by a South African batsman was 24.^[6]

Mills toured England with the South African team in 1894, in which no first-class matches were played, scoring 452 runs at an average of 14.58, and taking 28 wickets at 23.71.^[7] He took his best bowling figures in his last first-class match, for Western Province in the final of the 1894–95 Currie Cup against Transvaal: 5 for 36 in the second innings.^[8]

He returned to England in the mid-1890s. He coached in Philadelphia and Scotland and at the English public schools Haileybury, Bradfield and Mill Hill.^[2] He umpired Minor Counties matches, mostly involving Norfolk, from 1904 to 1906.^[9]