Casement, Roger, 1864-1916

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1864-09-01 - 1916-08-03

Biographical Note

Irish nationalist and diplomat. Roger David Casement (1864-1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. Casement was convicted and executed for treason by the United Kingdom for seeking German military support for the 1916 Easter Rising.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Roger Casement letters

Collection — Shared_box 5237: Series I; Series II; Series III; Series IV; Series I; Series II; Series III; Series I; Series II; Series III; Series I; Series II; Series III

Identifier: MS-2004-082

Abstract

Consists of correspondence of Casement including a letter to THE PILOT on English restrictions on Irish trade in 1914.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1905 - 1915

Rex v. Roger David Casement; Rex v. Daniel Julian Bailey: a record of the proceedings in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in the Court of Criminal Appeal

Collection — Volume 1

Identifier: BC-2023-112

Scope and Contents Bound volume of printed and typewritten memoranda and court transcripts pertaining to the trials of Roger David Casement and Daniel Julian Bailey. Table of Contents Contents: (from title page) 1. Memorandum by the Kings Coroner and by the Chief Clerk of the Crown Office; 2. The charge to the grand jury by the Lord Chief Justice of England; 3. The assignment of counsel & solicitors and the fixing of the date for the trials; 4. Copy of the...