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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Casement has received more than 1,674,875 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Roger Casement is the 48th most popular diplomat (down from 41st in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 89th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Roger Casement ranks 48 out of 90. Before him are William J. Burns, Richard Holbrooke, Zannanza, Friedrich Martens, Victoria Nuland, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt. After him are Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Damião de Góis, Saburō Kurusu, Christiana Figueres, Ángel Sanz Briz, and Selahattin Ülkümen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Roger Casement ranks 86. Before him are Ferdinand Zecca, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, George Albert Smith, Robert Lansing, and Hedwiga Rosenbaumová. After him are Adolf Wölfli, Toktogul Satylganov, Ricarda Huch, Tsuda Umeko, Alexander Dutov, and Nathan Birnbaum. Among people deceased in 1916, Roger Casement ranks 84. Before him are Cai E, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ota Benga, Artúr Görgei, and William Foulke. After him are James Connolly, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Lily Braun, Hugo von Pohl, and Tina Blau.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Roger Casement ranks 108 out of 549. Before him are Fiona Shaw (1958), Arthur Guinness (1725), Constantine III of Scotland (971), William Brown (1777), Edward Bransfield (1785), and John Boland (1870). After him are Richard Montgomery (1738), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Cornelius Ryan (1920), Colm Meaney (1953), and Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Ireland

Among diplomats born in Ireland, Roger Casement ranks 1. 

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