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Erskine Childers

1870 - 1922

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Robert Erskine Childers (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (), was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish independence. As a firm believer in the British Empire, Childers served as a volunteer in the army expeditionary force in the Second Boer War in South Africa, but his experiences there began a gradual process of disillusionment with British imperialism. He was adopted as a candidate in British parliamentary elections, standing for the Liberal Party at a time when the party supported a treaty to establish Irish home rule, but he later became an advocate of Irish republicanism and the severance of all ties with Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erskine Childers has received more than 24,604 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Erskine Childers is the 16,699th most popular politician (down from 15,675th in 2019), the 5,092nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,013th in 2019) and the 587th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Erskine Childers ranks 16,699 out of 19,576. Before him are Oswulf of Northumbria, Lilia Podkopayeva, Bill Pickering, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Michael Glos, and Chris Dodd. After him are Sigurður Eggerz, Rosy Bindi, Võ Thị Ánh Xuân, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Cécile Kyenge, and Clemente Mastella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Erskine Childers ranks 162. Before him are Lilian Gibbs, Walter Chaffe, Hubert Gough, Antonín Slavíček, Liberato Marcial Rojas, and William Glackens. After him are Roscoe Pound, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Alexander Munro, Philip Herbert Cowell, and C. B. K. Beachcroft. Among people deceased in 1922, Erskine Childers ranks 132. Before him are Pál Simon, Henry Lawson, W. H. R. Rivers, Liberato Marcial Rojas, John Munro Longyear, and Tullio Bozza. After him are Gösta Runö, Arthur Wesley Dow, Saint-George Ashe, Charles Thias, Lillian Russell, and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Erskine Childers ranks 5,092 out of 8,785. Before him are Ran Laurie (1915), Viv Anderson (1956), Bernardine Evaristo (1959), Steve Toussaint (1965), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), and Audrey Williamson (1926). After him are John James (1914), J. G. Farrell (1935), Archie Panjabi (1972), Louise Lombard (1970), Jennie Fletcher (1890), and Herbert Roper Barrett (1873).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Erskine Childers ranks 587. Before him are Samuel Plimsoll (1824), Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Albert Oldman (1883), John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), James McHenry (1753), and Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831). After him are George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), Titus Oates (1649), William Lyon Mackenzie (1795), Nellie Sengupta (1886), William Paterson (1745), and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705).

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