[1][4] From 1860 to 1864, Childers was employed by the civil service in Ceylon, first as private secretary to the governor, Charles Justin MacCarthy, and then as office assistant to the government agent in Kandy.

Yātrāmulle Śrī Dhammārāma Thera at Bentota Vanavāsa Vihāra, and established a firm friendship with Ven.

[4] In 1870, he published the text of the Khuddaka Pāṭha with an English translation and notes in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

[2][3] Childers was married to Anna Mary Henrietta Barton, who came from an Anglo-Irish family with an estate in Glendalough, County Wicklow.

[2][6] Thomas William Rhys Davids states in the Dictionary of National Biography that Childers died in Weybridge,[2] but the Encyclopædia Britannica records his place of death as London.