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
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
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 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.
Additional filters:
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- Archival Object 1
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Congo 1
- First World War (1914-1918) 1
- Ireland 1
- Mozambique 1
- Peru 1
