biography
| name: |
Childers, (Robert) Erskine
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pronunciation:
[childerz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1922)
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| biography:
| Irish nationalist and writer, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, fought in the South African and First World Wars, and wrote a popular spy story, The Riddle of the Sands (1903), and several works of non-fiction. After the establishment of the Irish Free State, he joined the Irish Republican Army, and was active in the Civil War. He was captured and executed. His son Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–74) was president of Ireland (1973–4). |
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