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Roger Casement

1864 - 1916

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Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. 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 Free State and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Casement is the 54th most popular diplomat (down from 48th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 108th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Roger Casement ranks 54 out of 90. Before him are Ralph Bunche, Saburō Kurusu, Damião de Góis, Victoria Nuland, Ambrogio Contarini, and Selahattin Ülkümen. After him are Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Ernest Mason Satow, Zannanza, Ángel Sanz Briz, and Christiana Figueres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Roger Casement ranks 101. Before him are Robert Lansing, Karl Neukirch, Guy Ropartz, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, and John Henry Mackay. After him are Rukhmabai, Elena Văcărescu, Akashi Motojiro, Đồng Khánh, Apolinario Mabini, and Futabatei Shimei. Among people deceased in 1916, Roger Casement ranks 94. Before him are Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, Ioannis Frangoudis, Eugen Dücker, Lily Braun, William Foulke, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. After him are Émile Faguet, Ota Benga, Georges Lacombe, Janis Rozentāls, Fergus Suter, and Ishi.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Roger Casement ranks 150 out of 549. Before him are Peter Brown (1935), Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), George Browne (1698), Colm Meaney (1953), and Daniel O'Connell (1775). After him are Edward Sabine (1788), Adomnán (624), Micheál Martin (1960), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), Jim Sheridan (1949), and Charles Stewart Parnell (1846).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Ireland

Among diplomats born in Ireland, Roger Casement ranks 1. 

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