Letter from J.S. Northcote to Gertrude Bannister, 31 July 1916

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Letter from J.S. Northcote to Gertrude Bannister, 31 July 1916

1 Telephone 3788 Victoria St Andrew's Vicarage, 30, Ashley Place, S.W. July 31. 16 Dear Miss Bannister W. Spencer Smith has
forwarded to me your letter
of July 29. It can if you wish it be
laid before the Governors
at their next meeting.
The Governors have however
decided not to state the
reason for terminating
your engagement with
them. I can assure
I can however 2
you that the work you did
at Queen Anne for many
years gave them complete
satisfaction, and if you
seek elsewhere employment
of the same kind I shall be
glad to bear testimony to
this fact. Yours very truly JS Northcote

The letter is from J.S. Northcote of St. Andrew's Vicarage to Gertrude Bannister (later Parry), a cousin of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916). The letter was written in relation to the decision of Queen Anne's school to terminate Banniter's employment there as she had received wide publicity for her Casement campaign. She is informed, however, that the governors of the school will not make the reasons for the termination public. The writer asserts that she had given satisfactory employment and that he is happy to testify to this if she seeks similar work.The letter was written while Casement was imprisoned in London after he had been arrested while landing on the coast of Kerry in a submarine on the eve of the Easter Rising. Bannister was heavily involved in raising public support for Casement during his trial for treason.

J.S. Northcote
Gertrude Bannister
1916-07-31
Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Industry and Public Administration

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1294.html)