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  Encyclopedia: Robert Erskine Childers
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.
Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 November 1905 - 17 November 1974), the son of Robert Erskine Childers (author of The Riddle of the Sands), served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974.
The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers, 1903
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Robert Erskine Childers[chil´durz] Pronunciation Key, 1870–1922, Irish politician and author.
Childers wrote on Irish politics and on military matters, but his best-known work is Riddle of the Sands (1903, repr.
His son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, 1905–74, became a naturalized Irish citizen and a member of the DAil in 1938.
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CHILDERS, ROBERT ERSKINE [Childers, Robert Erskine], 1870-1922, Irish politician and author.
His son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, 1905-74, became a naturalized Irish citizen and a member of the Dáil in 1938.
He held a succession of cabinet posts in the Fianna Fáil governments from 1944 on and in 1973 was elected president of Ireland.
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