# Michael Child

Colonel michael childers (17 December 1783 – 9 January 1854) was a British Army officer who served in the Peninsular War (1807–1814) and was present at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. == Life == Childers was born at Cantley Hall near Doncaster, the eldest son by the second marriage of Childers Walbanke-Childers, who had assumed the latter name when he inherited the estates of his grandfather, Leonard Childers, of Carr House, Yorkshire. His great nephew, Hugh Childers would become First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer.He joined the 2nd West India Regiment as an ensign on 25 February 1799 before transferring to the 11th Light Dragoons as a cornet on 5 August in the same year.