Roger Casement Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Roger Casement NPG 3867

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Rothenstein

Casement was the son of an Irish Protestant father and a Catholic mother and grew up in County Antrim and Liverpool. He became a distinguished member of the British Consular Service. As British Consul at Boma, capital of the Belgian controlled Congo, in 1903 he had written a memorandum to the Foreign Secretary, which revealed the horrors of exploitation in the rubber collecting industry. Knighted in 1911 after a distinguished career in the British Consular Service; became fervent Irish Nationalist and visited Berlin (1914) seeking... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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