In 1910 he resigned his post at the House of Commons in order to be free to work for the Irish cause, and the following year published The Framework of Home Rule, advocating full dominion status for Ireland. He married Mary (Molly) Alden Osgood, whom he had met on a visit to Boston, in 1904. He published his only novel, The Riddle of the Sands, in 1903. V., which was the fifth volume of The Times History of the War in South Africa, as well as two other books exposing the antiquated uses of cavalry against modern armaments. He volunteered at the outbreak of the Boer War and afterwards wrote a personal record, In the Ranks of the C. During his long holidays he spent time sailing the North Sea and the Channel in a tiny yacht, and explored the shoals of the German, Dutch and Danish coasts. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1895 to 1910 was a clerk in the House of Commons. Robert Esrkine Childers was born in 1870 to Anglo-Irish parents, and was raised in Ireland.
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