Ernley Blackwell

Sir Ernley Robertson Hay Blackwell KCB (6 June 1868 – 21 September 1941) was a British lawyer and career civil servant. As chief legal advisor to the Cabinet, Blackwell was involved in the prosecution of Roger Casement, and authorised the circulation of his disputed Black Diaries.[1][2]

  1. ^ Lucy McDiarmid, The Posthumous Life of Roger Casement in Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland, University of Massachusetts Press, 1997
  2. ^ The black diaries: an account of Roger Casement's life and times, P Singleton-Gates, M Girodias – 1959 – Grove Press