Erskine Childers (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erskine Childers (author)

Irish nationalist and author

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1870

Place of Birth: Mayfair, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1922

Profession: writer, politician, civil servant, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers (), was a British-born Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands.
He became a supporter of Irish Republicanism and smuggled guns into 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.