Thom's Irish Who's Who/Childers, Erskine

CHILDERS, Erskine, T.D.: b. in London, June 25th, 1870; second son of Professor Robert C;. Childers, of London, and Anna, daughter of Thomas J. Barton, of Glendalough House, Co. Wicklow: m. in 1904, Mary Alden, dau. of Hamilton Osgood, of Boston, U.S.A. Educ.: Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A., LL.B. Committee Clerk, British House of Commons, 1895-1910; served in South African War, 1900; 1910-14, political writing and work for Irish Home Rule. July, 1914, ran cargo of guns for Irish Volunteers into Howth in yacht "Asgard." Served in British Naval Air Service and Air Force in European War, 1914-1918, North Sea, Dardanelles, Palestine; Major, R.A.F.; D.S.C. for air reconnaissance work. Served on Secretariat of Irish Convention, 1917-1918. In 1919 became a citizen of the Irish Republic; 1920, Chairman of Rathmines Republican Justices; May, 1921, elected to Dail Eireann as Deputy for Wicklow and Kildare; Feb.-Aug., 1921. Minister for Publicity in Dail Eireann Ministry. Oct.-Dec, 1921, Principal Secretary to Irish Delegation of Plenipotentiaries. Afterwards opponent of Treaty in the Dail. Editor of "Republic of Ireland" from January, 1922. Pubns.: The Framework of Home Rule (1912); Military Rule in Ireland (1920); The Riddle of the Sands (1903); In the Ranks of the C.I.V., (1900), etc., etc. Res.: 12 Bushy Park Road, Terenure, Dublin.