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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. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Casement has received more than 1,506,800 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Roger Casement is the 41st most popular diplomat (down from 39th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 96th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Roger Casement ranks 41 out of 52Before him are Jean Kennedy Smith, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Yukiya Amano, Mikhail Borodin, Martin Luther, and Zannanza. After him are Amr Moussa, Ralph Bunche, Richard Holbrooke, Friedrich Martens, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, and Paul Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Roger Casement ranks 72Before him are Auguste Charlois, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Alexander Gretchaninov, Ante Trumbić, and Nikolay Chkheidze. After him are Sheikh Said, Robert Grant Aitken, Alejandro Lerroux, Stefan Żeromski, Đồng Khánh, and Adolf Wölfli. Among people deceased in 1916, Roger Casement ranks 71Before him are August Leskien, Huang Xing, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Saki, Marie Bracquemond, and James Connolly. After him are George Huntington, Ota Benga, Patrick Pearse, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Higaonna Kanryō, and Artúr Görgei.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Roger Casement ranks 90 out of 501Before him are Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Peter Lacy (1678), Saint Kilian (640), Brenda Fricker (1945), Eliza Lynch (1833), and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883). After him are Aidan Gillen (1968), Constantine III of Scotland (971), Patrick Pearse (1879), Arthur Guinness (1725), Edward Mulhare (1923), and William Brown (1777).

Among DIPLOMATS In Ireland

Among diplomats born in Ireland, Roger Casement ranks 1