Robert Caesar Childers

Robert Caesar Childers
Born1838 (1838)
Cantley, South Yorkshire, England[1]
Died (aged 38)
Weybridge[2] or London,[3] England
Resting placeHighgate Cemetery
Alma materWadham College, Oxford
Known forA Dictionary of the Pali Language (1875)
SpouseAnna Mary Henrietta Barton
Children5, including Erskine Childers
Relatives
AwardsPrix Volney (1876)

Robert Caesar Childers (/ˈtʃɪldərz/; 1838 – 25 July 1876) was a British Orientalist and the compiler of the first Pali–English dictionary to be published. He was the father of the Irish nationalist Erskine Childers and the paternal grandfather of the fourth president of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

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