Robert Erskine Childers
Novelist, Author
1870 – 1922
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Who was Robert Erskine Childers?
Robert Erskine Childers DSC, universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He 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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- Born
- Jun 25, 1870
Mayfair, London - Also known as
- Erskine Childers
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Died
- Nov 24, 1922
Beggars Bush, Dublin - Resting place
- Glasnevin Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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