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Erskine Hamilton Childers
Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974) served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Erskine Hamilton Childers )〕 He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1938 until 1973. Childers served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (1951–1954, 1959–1961, and 1966–1969), Minister for Lands (1957–1959), Minister for Transport and Power (1959–1969), and Minister for Health (1969–1973). He was appointed Tánaiste in 1969.
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.
==Early life==
Childers was born in the Embankment Gardens, London, to a Protestant family originally from Glendalough, Ireland. 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. His mother, Mary Alden Childers was a Bostonian whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. Robert Erskine Childers and his wife, Mary, later emerged as prominent and outspoken Irish Republican opponents of the political settlement with Britain which resulted in the establishment of the Irish Free State.〔Young, John N., ''Erskine H. Childers, President of Ireland: A Biography'' (Gerrards Cross and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Colin Smythe, 1985, ISBN 978-0-86140-195-6), pp. 5–7〕 Childers was educated at Gresham's School, Holt,〔Young, ''op. cit.'', p. 18〕〔Benson, S. G. G., and Martin Crossley Evans, ''I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School'', (James & James, London, 2002)〕 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. Before his execution, in a spirit of reconciliation, the older Childers obtained a promise from his son to seek out and shake the hand of every man who had signed the death warrant. After attending his father's funeral, Childers returned to Gresham's,〔 then two years later he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Notable Alumni )〕
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