What is Erskine Hamilton Childers?
{{Infobox President | honorific_prefix = [[His Excellency]] | name = Erskine Childers | smallimage = | order = 4th | office = President of Ireland | termstart=25 June, 1973 | termend=17 November, 1974 | preceded=[[Éamon de Valera]] | succeeded=[[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1905|12|11|df=y}} | birth_place = [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|11|17|1905|12|11|df=y}} | death_place= [[Dublin, Ireland]] | party = [[Fianna Fáil]] | spouse = [[Ruth Ellen Dow]]<br/>[[Rita Childers]] | profession = politician |}} '''Erskine Hamilton Childers''' (11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974), was the son of [[Robert Erskine Childers]] (author of the spy thriller ''The Riddle of the Sands''. He was the fourth [[President of Ireland]] from 1973 until his death in 1974, and a [[Teachta Dála|TD]] from 1938 until 1973. Childers held the following posts during his political career: * [[Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Ireland)|Minister for Posts and Telegraphs]] (1951–1954, 1959–1961, and 1966–1969), * [[Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (Ireland)|Minister for Lands]] (1957–1959), * [[Minister for Transport (Ireland)|Minister for Transport and Power]] (1959–1969) and * [[Minister for Health and Children (Ireland)|Minister for Health]] (1969–1973). He was appointed [[Tánaiste]] in 1969. ==Biography== [[File:Erskine Childers St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin 2006.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial to Erskine Childers in [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]].]] Childers was born in [[London]]. He moved to Ireland after the First World War and lived in [[County Wicklow]] with his father [[Robert Erskine Childers]]. His father helped bring guns to Ireland for the [[Easter Rising]], and opposed the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty|treaty]] that set up the [[Irish Free State]]. The younger Childers was educated at [[Gresham's School]], [[Holt, Norfolk|Holt]], and Trinity College, Cambridge, hence his striking British upper class accent. In 1922, when Childers was 16, his father was exec