Casement, Roger, 1864-1916
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.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Roger Casement letters
Consists of correspondence of Casement including a letter to THE PILOT on English restrictions on Irish trade in 1914.
Collection is open for research.
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
Open for research.
Roger Casement controversy, 1916-1958, undated
Documents Noyes's participation in the debate over Roger Casement's trial and execution through correspondence, research notes and materials on Casement's life, manuscripts and typescript versions of his book and play on Casement, and reviews and promotional materials from The Accusing Ghost.