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Robert Erskine Childers

Robert Erskine Childers
Childers in uniform of the City Imperial Volunteers (C.I.V), 1899.
Personal information
Birth date25 June 1870
Place of birthMayfair, London.
Date of death24 November 1922(age 52)
Death placeBeggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin
OccupationSoldier
Journalist
Politician
Novelist
Political partySinn Féin.
ReligionChurch of Ireland
SpouseMary "Molly" Alden Osgood (1875-1964)
ChildrenErskine Hamilton Childers
Henry Childers
Robert Alden Childers

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Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 � 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, (c-eniconˈɜrskɨn_ˈtʃɪldərz) was the author of the influential novel Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist, who was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.


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