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  Hugh Childers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (June 25, 1827 - January 29, 1896) was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century.
He retired from parliament in 1892, and his last piece of work was the drafting of a report for the royal commission on Irish financial relations, of which he was chairman.
A cousin, Robert Erskine Childers, was author of the famous spy novel The Riddle of the Sands and father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Childers.
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 Robert Erskine Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He was the son of Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of Erskine Hamilton Childers.
Childers was born into a Protestant family in London.
Childers was secretary-general of the Irish delegation that negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty with the British government, but he was vehemently opposed to the final draft of the agreement, particularly the clauses that required Irish leaders to swear allegiance to the Crown.
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 Hugh Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (June 25, 1827 - January 29, 1896) was a British statesman.
Childers was a capable and industrious administrator of the old Liberal school, and he helped improve the naval and military administration while he was at the admiralty and war office.
A distant relative, Robert Erskine Childers, was the famed author of the Riddle in the Sands, a clerk of the British House of Commons turned Irish revolutionary and secretary to the Irish Delegation in the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations that led the creation of the Irish Free State.
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 The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers, 1903
The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers, 1903
Childers, shown here in a photo around the time of the Boer War, was a cousin of Hugh Childers, who served Gladstone as First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister of War.
Childers became an advocate of Irish Home Rule and he and his wife used their sailboat to smuggle to the Irish rebels in July, 1914, arms which served as the basis for the Easter uprising of 1916.
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 HUGH CULLING EARDLEY CHILDERS - LoveToKnow Article on HUGH CULLING EARDLEY CHILDERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
From 1882 to 1885 he was chancellor of the exchequer, and the beer and spirit duty in his budget of the latteryear was the occasion of the governments fall.
He retired from parliament in 1892, and died on the 29th of January 1896, his last piece of work beingthe drafting of a report for the royal commission on Irish financialrelations, of which he was chairman.
Childers was a capab]e and industrious administrator of the old Liberal school, and he did hisbest, in the political conditions then prevailing, to improve thenaval and military administration while he was at the admiraltyand war office.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHILDERS_HUGH_CULLING_EARDLEY.htm   (398 words)

  
 Robert Erskine Childers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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.
Childers was born into a Protestant family in Glenalough, Ireland.
Childers was secretary-general of the Irish delegation that negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty with the British government, but he was vehemently opposed to the final draft of the agreement, particularly the clauses that required Irish leaders to swear fidelity to the Crown.
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 ROBERT ERSKINE CHILDERS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Childers was born into a Protestant family in Glendalough, Ireland.
Childers was secretary-general of the Irish delegation that negotiated the Anglo-Irish_Treaty with the British_government, but he was vehemently opposed to the final draft of the agreement, particularly the clauses that required Irish leaders to swear fidelity to the British King.
Soon Childers was regarded as a traitor not only by the British, but by the pro-Treaty government in Dublin.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Ca-Ch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Childers had scarcely landed before he heard that applications were being called for an inspectorship of denominational schools.
On 1 December Childers moved, in the legislative council, that a committee of seven should be appointed to consider the establishing of the university, and on 11 January 1853, as chairman of this committee, he submitted its report.
Childers was also one of the five members of the original board of trustees.
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 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (June 25, 1827 - January 29, 1896), British statesman, was born in London.
From 1882 to 1885 he was chancellor of the exchequer, and the beer and spirit duty in his budget of the latter year was the occasion of the government's fall.
Childers was a capab]e and industrious administrator of the old Liberal school, and he did his best, in the political conditions then prevailing, to improve thenaval and military administration while he was at the admiralty and war office.
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 Hugh Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
When the Liberals regained power in 1880 Childers was appointed Secretary of State for WarSecretary for War, a position he accepted reluctantly.
He retired from parliament in 1892, and his last piece of work was the drafting of a report for the royal commission on IrelandIrish/ financial relations, of which he was chairman.
A cousin, Robert Erskine Childers, was author of the famous spy novel ''The Riddle of the Sands''.
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 William Ewart Gladstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
March, 1871 - G.J. Goschen succeeds Childers at the Admiralty.
August, 1872 - Hugh Childers returns to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
December, 1882 - H.C.E. Childers succeeds Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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 Walkabout - Childers
The name of the town of Childers comes either from the village of Childre in Oxfordshire (there are other Oxfordshire names in the area including Didcot, Abingdon and the Isis River) or from the Rt Hon Hugh Childers, Auditor-General of Victoria.
The centrepieces of Childers charm are the Childers Pharmaceutical Museum and the Olde Butcher Shoppe, both of which are specialist museums where the history of particular trades can be explored.
Over the road is the Childers Court House (1897) which is a fine and well preserved example of the kind of country Court Houses built throughout Queensland at the turn of the century.
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 Introduction Page to Childers and its Businesses, History and Services at www.welcometochilders.8k.com
The name of the town of Childers is not known for sure but it is said to come from either the village of Childre in Oxfordshire (there are also other Oxfordshire names in the area including Abingdon, Didcot and the Isis River) or named after the Rt Hon Hugh Childers, Auditor-General of Victoria.
The best place to start is at Gaydon's building (1894) in Churchill Street is the home of Childers Pharmaceutical Museum, The museum is believed to be the only one of its kind in Australia featuring displays of dental paraphernalia and medicines.
This site is a combination of information about Childers as it is today, including businesses, services, clubs, medical, emergency and schools and their history, along with many recent and old photos of buildings and events.
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 Childers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erskine Hamilton Childers and Rita Childers his wife,
Hugh Childers (also called Hugh Culling Eardley Childers),
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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 William Ewart Gladstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Childers — First Lord of the Admiralty
September 1873 — John Bright returns to the Cabinet, succeeding Childers at the Duchy of Lancaster
Hugh Childers — Secretary of State for War
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 The Childers ~ Childress Family Association Childress Genealogy
Bay Childers when young, became the property of the Duke of Devonshire, and is supposed to have been the "fleetest racer ever bred in England."
At Cantley later, was born Childers Walbank, son of one of the daughters of the house.
CARR HOUSE was purchased by the borough to use as a fever hospital." CARR HOUSE was used as a hospital for generations, and it was deemed so germ ridden by the close of World War I, it was destroyed by fire.
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 The University of Melbourne 150th Anniversary: Gallery
Foundation Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne H.E Childers was born 25 June 1827, London and educated at Cambridge University where he graduated B.A. in 1850 and M.A. in 1857.
In 1850 he emigrated to Victoria and was subsequently appointed member of the National Board of Education, Immigration Agent and then Auditor- General of Victoria in 1853.
In his official capacity as Collector of Customs, Childers conducted the bill for the establishment of the University of Melbourne.
www.unimelb.edu.au /150/gallery/03bhughchilders.html   (106 words)

  
 About Mana Puppets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ros and Hugh Childers, the founders of Mana Puppets, believe strongly in the power of puppets to provide an educational message, as well as to entertain.
Hugh has worked in a variety of education settings as an administrator and has taught English classes in Germany.
Ros and Hugh have toured their educational puppet shows to metropolitan and regional areas of Queensland and New South Wales.
www.manapuppets.com.au /about.php   (544 words)

  
 NPG 1631; Hugh Culling Eardley Childers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Educated at both Oxford and Cambridge, Hugh Childers decided to forge a career in the colonies.
In 1857 the Childers returned to London and two years later Hugh Childers was elected as Liberal MP for Pontefract.
After the election of Gladstone as Prime Minister in 1868, Childers was appointed Lord of the Admiralty (1868-71).
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charles Hugh Bozeman, age 65 of Ball Ground, Ga., passed away Jan. 3, 2005 at North Fulton Regional Hospital.
Virginia M. Childers, age 84 of Nelson, passed away Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004 at Portsbridge Hospice in Dunwoody, Ga. Survivors include her son, Larry W. Childers, Nelson; and sister, Eva Young, Cartersville.
Childers was preceded in death her husband, Otis C. Childers on July 19, 1973; two sons, Kenny and Hugh Childers; and one daughter,
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 Retirement center gets into the Games
Going for gold: Hugh Childers wears his silver medal from a horseshoes competition while admiring the ice sculpture with fellow Trinity Oaks residents (from left) Richard Riis, Hope Davis and Doris Alexander.
Residents such as Hugh Childers also wore medals they won in earlier sporting competitions.
Childers took silver in a horseshoes throwing contest.
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 Melbourne Education - Scholarships and Awards - By Faculty Selection - Graduate Diploma in Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Value: $700 (However, if in any year the Net Annual Income of the Trust Fund is insufficient to provide this full amount, the payment for such year is reduced accordingly).
Donor: In 1924 Charles E.E. Childers and Mrs Stephen L. Simeon in memory of the Rt.Hon.
H.C.E. Childers, Vice-Chancellor of the University donated this prize.
www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au /student/saaf/gradip.shtml   (367 words)

  
 Chancellor of the Exchequer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Childers (December 16, 1882 - June 9, 1885)
Hugh Dalton (July 27, 1945 - November 13, 1947) (resigned)
Hugh Gaitskell (October 19, 1950 - October 26, 1951)
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 Canadian Journal of History: British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880
He acknowledges that the Gladstonian years reduced the cost of the navy and that the new level was lower than many contemporaries, primarily the Navalists, and some current historians have believed prudent.
But Beeler points out that Hugh Childers, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1868-71, reorganized a chaotic administration, improving efficiency, and revamped strategy sufficiently to allow the reduction to be accommodated with a minimum of disruption and a maximum of advantage.
Overall, the situation, following the Childers reforms, was sufficiently benign that the much maligned policy of both government and Admiralty was justifiable and appropriate.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_199812/ai_n8819523   (915 words)

  
 Black Night off Finisterre : Book reviews : Journal for Maritime Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The calculations showed she was dangerously unstable once her upper deck was awash, a condition in which her Captain Hugh Burgoyne, and Coles, who was on board, now considered perfectly normal.
Childers had disagreed with Reed so forcibly that Reed had resigned, and appears to have promised Coles, after the first cruise of the Captain, some official position.
Prostrate with grief, and suppressed guilt, Childers issued a minute blaming everyone else for the disaster, and implying much of the fault lay with the Controller, Admiral Sir Spencer Robinson.
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 History : Community : The University of Melbourne
The foundation stone was laid in July 1854, and the first four professors arrived early in 1855.
The first Vice-Chancellor was Hugh Childers, then still in his twenties, but in those years it was a much less important position than today.
The University was largely dominated by the foundation Chancellor, Redmond Barry, who held the position until his death in 1880.
www.unimelb.edu.au /about/history   (1178 words)

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