Erskine Childers was born on June 25, 1870 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Riddle of the Sands (1979) and Das Rätsel der Sandbank (1987). He was married to Mary Alden Osgood. He died on November 24, 1922 in Dublin, Irish Free State [now Dublin, Ireland].
He served Britain during World War I but later defected to the Irish rebels during the Irish War of Independence (1919-21).
An Irish Protestant nationalist who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty
(1922) which resulted in the Free State and partition, and was executed
during the Civil War.
His son Erskine Hamilton Childers served as the fourth President of Ireland from June 25, 1973 until his death on November 17, 1974.