Erskine Barton Childers

Erskine Barton Childers (11 March 1929–25 August 1996) was a writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant. He was the eldest son of Erskine Hamilton Childers (Ireland's fourth President) and Ruth Ellen Dow Childers. His grandparents Mary Alden Childers and Robert Erskine Childers and the latter's double first cousin Robert Barton were all Irish nationalists involved heavily with the negotiation of Irish independence; which ultimately led to his grandfather's execution during the Irish Civil War. His great aunt was Gretchen Osgood Warren.

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Erskine Childers, Walid Khalidi and Jon Kimche The Spectator Correspondence, Appendix E. this correspondence was reproduced in Appendix E in Walid Khalidi 'Plan Dalet Revisited', Journal of Palestine Studies 18(1), Autumn 1988. Original publication from the Spectator following the 12 May 1961 of Erskine Childers' original article.

Ian Williams 'In Memoriam: Erskine Childers, 1929-1996', Washington Report on Middle east Affairs, October 1996, pg. 24