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Childers
Childers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alisa Childers (born 1975), American singer * Ambyr Childers (born 1988), American actress *Bob Childers (1946–2006), American country/folk singer-songwriter *Buddy Childers (1926–2007), American jazz trumpeter *Ernest Childers (1918–2005), American Army officer * Erskine Barton Childers (1929–1996), Irish UN civil servant *Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), 4th President of Ireland (1973–1974) * Hugh Childers (1827–1896), British and Australian Liberal statesman *Jason Childers (born 1975), American Major League baseball player *Lawrence Childers (born 1944), American politician *Mary Ann Childers, American television reporter * Marvin Childers (born 1961), American politician, lawyer, and lobbyist *Matt Childers (born 1978), American major League baseball player *Michael Childers (1784–1854), British Army officer of the Napoleonic era * Milly Childers (1866–1922), English painter * Molly Childers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erskine Childers (author)
Robert Erskine Childers Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (), was an English-born Irish writer, politician, and militant. His works included the influential novel ''The Riddle of the Sands''. Starting as an ardent Unionism in Ireland, Unionist, he later became a supporter of Irish Republicanism and smuggled guns into Ireland in his sailing yacht ''Asgard (yacht), Asgard''. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalism, Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. Early life Childers was born in Mayfair, London, in 1870. He was the second son of Robert Caesar Childers, a translator and Oriental studies, oriental scholar from an Anglican ministry, ecclesiastical family, and Anna Mary Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Childers, Queensland
Childers is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Childers had a population of 1,584 people. Geography Childers is in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, situated on the Bruce Highway and lies north of the state capital Brisbane and south-west of Bundaberg. The Isis Highway runs south from the Bruce Highway in Childers. The township is set on a ridge overlooking fields of rich volcanic soil. History The Childers area was traditionally inhabited by the Dundaburra group who are part of Kabi Kabi nations in the northernmost area of the Wide Bay Burnett. Their descendants still live in the region. Europeans first arrived in the area in the 1850s. Pastoralists established properties soon after to raise cattle on the fertile lands. Back then, sugar was (as it is now) the key crop grown in the Isis. The town was established in 1885. The Isis railway line to Childers opened in 1887 and was pivot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Childers
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (25 June 1827 – 29 January 1896) was a British Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for his reform efforts at the Admiralty and the War Office. Later in his career, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, his attempt to correct a budget shortfall led to the fall of the Liberal government led by William Gladstone. Early life Childers was born in London, the son of Reverend Eardley Childers and his wife Maria Charlotte (''née'' Smith), sister of Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet and granddaughter of Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley. He was educated at Cheam School under Pestalozzi and then both Wadham College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. from the latter in 1850. Influential on his intellectual development were Adam Smith's theories of free trade, and capital returns. Childers then decided to seek a career in Australia and on 26 October 1850 arrived in Melbourne, Victoria along with his wife E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Childers
Timothy Tyler Childers (born June 21, 1991) is an American singer and songwriter. His music is a mix of neotraditional country, bluegrass, and folk. He released his breakthrough album ''Purgatory'' in August 2017. Childers has released five studio albums and a number of EPs and singles. Early life Tyler Childers was born and raised in Lawrence County, Kentucky. His father worked in the coal industry and his mother is a nurse. He learned to sing in church where he sang in the church choir. He started to play guitar and write songs when he was around 13. He attended Paintsville High School in nearby Paintsville, in Johnson County, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 2009. Fellow country musicians Chris Stapleton ( Staffordsville), Loretta Lynn, and Crystal Gayle also hail from Johnson County. Childers studied for a semester at Western Kentucky University, and enrolled at Bluegrass Community and Technical College for a few semesters. He dropped out of college and did odd jobs for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erskine Hamilton Childers
Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the fourth president of Ireland from June 1973 to November 1974. He is the only Irish president to have died in office. He also served as Tánaiste and Minister for Health from 1969 to 1973, Minister for Transport and Power from 1959 to 1969, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1951 to 1954 and 1966 to 1969, Minister for Lands from 1957 to 1959 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government from 1944 to 1948. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1938 to 1973. His father Robert Erskine Childers, a leading Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller ''The Riddle of the Sands'', was executed during the Irish Civil War. Early life Childers was born in the Embankment Gardens, Westminster, London, to a Protestant family, originally from Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland. Although also born in England, his father, Robert Erskine C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Childers
Travis Wayne Childers (born March 29, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2008 to 2011. The district included much of the northern portion of the state including New Albany, Columbus, Oxford, Southaven, and Tupelo. A member of the Democratic Party, Childers previously served as Chancery Clerk of Prentiss County from 1992 until his election to Congress. On March 1, 2014, Childers announced that he was running for the United States Senate. He won his party's nomination for the Senate seat in the Democratic primary on June 3. He lost the general election to Republican incumbent Thad Cochran. Early life, education and career Childers was born in Booneville in Prentiss County, Mississippi, on March 29, 1958. He is the son of John Wayne and Betty (Stokes) Childers. His father, a native of Glen, died when Travis was 16 years old. In high school, Travis worked nights and weekends at a convenience store in Booneville to help his mother, Betty, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Childers
Robert Wayne Childers (November 20, 1946 – April 22, 2008) was an American country-folk musician and singer-songwriter from the state of Oklahoma. Both before and after his death, he achieved widespread critical acclaim having been compared to songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Childers is often labeled the "father", "grandfather", or "godfather" of the regional Oklahoman music scene known as Red Dirt music. Biography and works Childers was born on November 20, 1946, in West Union, West Virginia, to parents Howard and Rhea (Gaskins) Childers. At the age of seven, he and his family moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma.Mack, JoeA final farewell to the rainbow rocker.''The Current'', May 2008, p. 24. He developed an interest in music and started playing guitar at age 16. After graduating from Ponca City High School, he moved even further west to study music in Berkeley, California.Payne County Promotions websiteTexas Troubadours Interview with Bob Childers.Retrieved Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Childers
Sam Childers (born 1963), also known as the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American motorcyclist, author, and humanitarian. A former member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Childers became well known after Dateline NBC's (Keith Morrison and Tim Sandler) story about him and his interactions with Joseph Kony (leader of the Lord's Resistance Army) in 2005 and now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have around 185 children in their care. Childers also has orphanages and homes in Uganda and Ethiopia with another 160 children in his organisation's care. In 2013, Childers received the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice. Early life Childers was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the son of Paul Childers, an ironworker and former Marine. Childers had two older brothers, Paul Jr. and George. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nessa Childers
Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish Independent politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2019. Early life She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers. Her paternal grandfather was Erskine Childers, a leading Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller ''The Riddle of the Sands''. She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin. During her time at Trinity she served as Registrar of the University Philosophical Society. She previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice. Politics She is a former County Councillor for the Green Party, representing the Blackrock local electoral area on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. She was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008. Childers originally joined the Labour Party before the 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erskine Barton Childers
Erskine Barton Childers (11 March 1929 – 25 August 1996) was an Irish 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. Early life Childers was born in Dublin to Erskine Hamilton Childers and his first wife Ruth Ellen Dow. He grew up in a multi cultural atmosphere which was to influence his whole life. From an early age, he had an obvious fascination with history and world affairs. He studied at Newtown School, Waterford and much later on at Trinity College, Dublin, and Stanford University. At Stanford University he was actively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Childers
Mary Alden Childers ( Osgood; 14 December 1875– 1 January 1964), known as Molly Childers, was an American-born Irish writer and nationalist. A daughter of Dr Hamilton Osgood and Margaret Cushing Osgood of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, her older sister was Gretchen Warren. She married fellow Irish writer and nationalist, Erskine Childers. Their son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, became the fourth President of Ireland. Early life and family Childers, affectionately called "Molly", was born into a reputable Bostonian family that lived at 8 Beacon Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. Physically disabled from the age of three following a skating accident, Childers was educated at home and was not mobile for the first 12 years of her life. Eventually she was able to move enough to ride horses, but she was never capable of walking without crutches. Her father, Dr Osgood, was a student of Dr Louis Pasteur and spent time with him in France and Switzerland. It was this rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Childers
Margaret "Rita" Childers (; 19 July 1915 – 9 May 2010) was a press attaché at the British Embassy in Dublin, civil servant and activist. She became the wife of the 4th President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers, and later was a candidate for the presidency. Early life and family Childers was born Margaret Mary Dudley on 25 February 1915 at the family home on Elgin Road, Dublin. Her parents were her father was Joseph and Marcella Dudley (née Vereker). She was the sixth child of eight children. Her father was a solicitor. Childers was educated at Loreto and Holy Cross schools, and later Muckross Park College. Due to her father's long illness and premature death, she and her sisters were unable to attend university. She completed a secretarial course and took up her first job aged 17 as a secretary at a Dublin antiques dealer. She went on to work at the St John Ambulance Brigade as an assistant secretary in the welfare department for 5 years, overseeing the running of 3 can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
