Casement, Roger David, Sir, 1864-1916 (Knight, diplomat)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1864 - 1916
Found in 4 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
File
Ireland, 1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/F4/6
Scope and Contents
Copy of The Star for 1 May 1916 with news of the Irish rising; typescript memorandum of 1 page about Roger Casement; and letter of appeal in support of Casement (not by Meynell?).
Dates:
1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Sir Roger Casement, 1912-1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kennet 14
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Roger Casement and EHY.
Dates:
1912-1916
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 2
- Type
- Archival Object 3
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Congo 1
- First World War (1914-1918) 1
- Ireland 1
- Mozambique 1
- Peru 1