Talk:Richard Casey, Baron Casey

Title

The naming conventions - [1] provide that: Life peers are generally mentioned by their personal name not title, because among other reasons a life peerage is often awarded at the end of a career, while the individual holding them may be far more widely known though their personal name, so use George Robertson, not Lord Robertson.

In order that the convention be followed, I would move the page while removing the reference to the Barony of Casey. -- Lord Emsworth 19:41, Jan 2, 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguation

I had a hard time figuring out what I should do about the disambiguation between this article and my new article, on Judge Richard C. Casey. I haven't read this article, but is it necessary that we name it, "Richard Casey" and "Baron Casey"? If we could change it to "Richard Casey (Baron)", then I could change mine to "Richard Casey (Judge)", and the disambiguation would be clearer. --Hyphen5 11:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Please sign your edits
• It is an established convention that life peers are described in this way
• You should call your article Richard C. Casey, and there should be a Richard Casey (disambiguation) page to direct the reader. Adam 11:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Sorry that I forgot to sign. I'm willing to create a disambiguation page, but I've been skimming through the deletions page and I'm a little confused as to whether they customarily delete disambiguation pages with only two links. What do you think? --Hyphen5 11:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I don't see any problem with a two name disambig page. Richard Casey should also probably be made into a redirect to Richard Casey (disambiguation). -- Ian ≡ talk 15:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Okay, it's done. Thanks for your help! --Hyphen5 20:11, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

If a user is approximately equally likely to be looking for either of these guys when they type [[Richard Casey], then a dab page is good, so they know where they're going. But if one is more famous, or more likely to be searched under that particular term, then the regular link at the top would be preferable, so people looking for the one wouldn't have the extra click to get there. NickelShoe (Talk) 18:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Succession boxes

Since Casey served as a minister in both the British and Australian governments, is it possible to either separate the succession or make it clear which posts were in which government? Timrollpickering 15:54, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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Two middle names - Gavin and Gardiner

I’d only ever seen him as Richard Gardiner Casey – and we make the point that his father was also Richard Gardiner Casey.

Until, that is, I saw this, this, and this, on It’s an Honour, which have him as Richard Gavin Gardiner Casey.

However, It’s an Honour also calls him just Richard Gardiner Casey here and here.

I have no reason to believe these are different people. Is there any corroboration of the name Gavin from other sources? And if it's legit, why do most official documents dispense with the Gavin? -- JackofOz (talk) 22:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

ADB has him as Gavin Gardiner. I've amended the text accordingly. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 10:57, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Nice catch. Inconsistencies in names can be a bit of a pain - Dean Wells has different spellings of both his first and his middle name depending on which parliament he sat in. ADB is probably a good indicator, though. Frickeg (talk) 12:51, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Casey's Views on Poles forcibly imprisoned by the USSR during WWII

These views cast considerable light on Casey's shockingly insensitive mindset and I think this article would be incomplete without them. In a memo to the Foreign Office in 1942, Casey clearly showed himself to be prepared to let 50,000 children die rather than be encumbered with Polish refugees in the middle East. In his words "If these Poles die in Russia, the war effort will not be affected". Later estimates of the total number of Polish deportees are 1.5 million of which probably 200,000 children. Most of these probably died in the USSR.

https://januszandrzej.blogspot.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.93.146.80 (talk) 10:55, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

These views probably served to recommend him to whoever (Winston Churchill?) decided to appoint him as Governor of Bengal to replace the deceased Sir John Arthur Herbert who had presided over the initiation of the Bengal Famine of 1943. NRPanikker (talk) 07:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)