He was the son of British 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.
Era o fillo do erudito orientalista británico Robert Caesar Childers, curmán de Hugh Childers e Robert Barton, e pai do cuarto presidente de Irlanda, Erskine Hamilton Childers.