In Britain, the term " spy novel " was defined by The Riddle of the Sands ( 1903 ) by Robert Erskine Childers.

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.

It suffered an early electoral defeat in the 1973 presidential election, when Fine Gael candidate Tom O ' Higgins was defeated by the Fianna Fáil candidate, Erskine H. Childers, who became President of Ireland.

Éamon de Valera, by now Leader of the Opposition also did not attend, being represented by a senior Fianna Fáil figure who was a member of the Church of Ireland, Erskine Childers, a future President of Ireland himself.

His father Robert Erskine Childers, a leading Irish Republican and author of the espionage thriller The Riddle of the Sands, was executed during the Irish Civil War.

Childers was born in the Embankment Gardens, London, to a Protestant family originally from Glendalough, Ireland.

His mother, Mary Alden Childers was a Bostonian whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower.

Childers was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and the University of Cambridge, hence his striking British upper class accent.

In 1922, when Childers was sixteen, his father was executed by the new Irish Free State on politically-inspired charges of gun-possession. The pistol he had been found with had been given to him by Michael Collins.

Childers was nominated by Fianna Fáil at the behest of de Valera, who pressured Jack Lynch in the selection of the presidential candidate.

However, on the campaign trail his personal popularity proved enormous, and in a political upset, Childers was elected the fourth President of Ireland on 30 May 1973, defeating O ' Higgins by 635, 867 votes to 578, 771.

Childers considered resigning from the presidency, but was convinced to remain by Cosgrave's Foreign Minister, Garret FitzGerald.

Prevented from transforming the presidency as he desired, Childers instead threw his energy into a busy schedule of official visits and speeches, which was physically taxing.

The Darley Arabian sired Flying Childers and he was the great-great-grandsire of the extremely influential Eclipse.

It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy.

The Black Watch was formed as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 when the 42nd ( Royal Highland ) Regiment of Foot ( The Black Watch ) was amalgamated with the 73rd ( Perthshire ) Regiment of Foot to form two battalions of the newly named the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ).

Because President Childers died in office, his state funeral was a major state occasion.

For the first 24 hours of release, the song was exclusively available as part of the " Donate to Download " campaign for Sam Childers ' Angels of East Africa children's charity.

Selborne was assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Childers, from 1882 to 1885, when he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for East Hampshire.

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers ( 25 June 1827 – 29 January 1896 ) was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century.

Although also born in England, his father, Robert Erskine Childers, had had an Irish mother and had been raised by an uncle in County Wicklow, and after the First World War took his family to live there.

* November 24-Robert Erskine Childers, Irish historian & novelist ( born 1870 )

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Childers was born in London, the son of Reverend Eardley Childers and his wife Maria Charlotte ( née Smith ),

* 25 August-Erskine Barton Childers, diplomat writer and broadcaster, son of President Childers ( born 1929 ).

* 17 November-Erskine Hamilton Childers, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and fourth President of Ireland ( born 1905 ).

* 24 November-Robert Erskine Childers, writer, nationalist, executed by Free State firing squad at the Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin ( born 1870 ).

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The estate later came into the hands of Childers Welbank Childers of York, who sold it to London merchant George Bainbridge who was born in 1740.

The enterprise failed and, on his return to London in April 1918, Childers found that, as a naval flyer, he had been transferred into the newly created Royal Air Force.

In autumn 1903 Childers travelled to the United States as part of a reciprocal visit between the Honourable Artillery Company of London and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts of Boston.

Childers returned to London with his new wife and resumed his position in the House of Commons.

Because of The Riddle, Childers was invited to join the Savile Club, then a literary epicentre in London.

Childers, on temporary leave in London, was shocked by the harsh and summary punishments ( including the execution of sixteen of the leaders of the rising ) authorised by General John Maxwell, but as a serving officer he could do little.

In this they were totally unsuccessful, and Childers returned once again to London.

Dr. Robert Caesar Childers ( 1866, London )

In 1881, under the Childers Reforms when regimental numbers were abolished the regiment became The Royal Fusiliers ( City of London Regiment ).