![]() ![]() ![]() His love for the sport grew steadily, with his journeys across the channel becoming the basis for the fictional spy thriller The Riddle of the Sands.Īs an advocate of the British Empire, it was a natural decision for Childers to serve in both the Boer War and the First World War, firstly as an artillery man, and latterly as an instructor in coastal navigation. At around the same time, Childers was introduced to sailing by Walter Runciman. In 1895, aged 25 and with his law degree in hand, he became a junior committee clerk in the House of Commons. ![]() He returned to England for University, attending Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became editor of the Cambridge Review and president of the Trinity College Debating Society. He lost both of his parents to tuberculosis at a young age, a loss which brought him to Ireland to live with his mother’s family, the Bartons. Christened Robert, but known to all as Erskine Childers, this talented Englishman lived a short but eventful life that ended as dramatically as some of his writing. ![]()
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