CHILDERS, ROBERT ERSKINE Irish politician, the son of Prof. Robert C. Childers of London, was educated at Haileybury and Trinity college, Cambridge. From 1895 to 1910 he was a clerk in the British House of Commons. He served as a trooper in the South African War in 190o and from 1910 to 1914 was engaged in political work and writing for Irish Home Rule. During the World War he served in the Royal Naval Air Service and in the Royal Air Force, in which he attained the rank of major and won the D.S.C. From 1917 to 1918 he served on the secretariat of the Irish Convention. On his de mobilization he returned to Ireland and was elected to Dail Eireann as deputy for Wicklow in May 1921. He was principal secretary to the Irish delegation of plenipotentiaries to Westminster, Oct.– Dec. 1921. He afterwards opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 5922, supported De Valera in the Dail and joined the Republicans when they again took up arms. He was captured in Wicklow Nov. 1 o, 1922, and tried by military court martial on Nov. 17, on the tech nical charge of having possession of an automatic pistol without proper authority. He was found guilty of treason, and executed on Nov. 24, 1922.