Erskine Hamilton Childers
| Erskine H. Childers | |
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| 4th President of Ireland | |
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In office 25 June 1973 – 17 November 1974 |
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| Taoiseach | Liam Cosgrave |
| Preceded by | Éamon de Valera |
| Succeeded by | Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh |
| Tánaiste | |
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In office 2 July 1969 – 14 March 1973 |
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| Taoiseach | Jack Lynch |
| Preceded by | Frank Aiken |
| Succeeded by | Brendan Corish |
| Minister for Health | |
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In office 2 July 1969 – 14 March 1973 |
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| Taoiseach | Jack Lynch |
| Preceded by | Seán Flanagan |
| Succeeded by | Brendan Corish |
| Minister for Transport and Power | |
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In office 27 June 1959 – 2 July 1969 |
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| Taoiseach |
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| Preceded by | office created |
| Succeeded by | Brian Lenihan |
| Minister for Posts and Telegraphs | |
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In office 13 June 1951 – 2 June 1954 |
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| Taoiseach | Éamon de Valera |
| Preceded by | James Everett |
| Succeeded by | Michael Keyes |
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In office 10 November 1966 – 2 July 1969 |
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| Taoiseach | Jack Lynch |
| Preceded by | Joseph Brennan |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Lalor |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office June 1938 – May 1944 |
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| Constituency | Athlone–Longford |
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In office February 1948 – 25 June 1973 |
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| Constituency | Longford–Westmeath |
| Personal details | |
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Erskine Hamilton Childers 11 December 1905 City of Westminister, London, UK |
| Died | 17 November 1974 (aged 68) Phibsborough, Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
| Resting place | Roundwood, Wicklow, Republic of Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil |
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| Children | 7, including Erskine Barton and Nessa |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974) was a British-born Irish politician who served as the fourth President of Ireland from 25 of June 1973 until his death on 17 November 1974. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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