Casement, Roger David, Sir, 1864 - 1916 (Knight, diplomat)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1864 - 1916
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Cabinet papers, 1915-05 - 1916-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 5/12
Scope and Contents
Includes: memorandum by Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on his decision to reconstruct the Government as a coalition; note by Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, on funding the war, with drafts of a note by McKenna on limiting the number of recruits due to the financial situation; comments by [?] 1st Lord Curzon on evidence from Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, and McKenna in support of voluntary recruitment,...
Dates:
1915-05 - 1916-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Extracts from the diaries of Sir Roger Casement
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CANT
Scope and Contents
Photocopy extracts from Casement's diaries 1903-4 and 1910 and cash ledger, 1911, prepared for case Rex v Casement, 1916. Including details of his visits to the Congo [later Democratic Republic of the Congo] and Peru and of his sexual activities. The diary entries are not continuous and there are gaps between entries in some places.
There has existed for many years a widely held belief that the diaries were forged.
Dates:
1903 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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- Archival Object 1
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- Subject
- Congo 1
- First World War (1914-1918) 1
- Ireland 1
- Mozambique 1
- Peru 1