Florence Ada Keynes

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Florence Ada Keynes , née Brown (born March 10, 1861 in Cheetham, Manchester , † February 13, 1958 in Cambridge , England ) was an English historian, author and politician. She was the first woman on the Cambridge City Council in 1914 and Mayor of the English university city ​​from 1932 to 1939 .

Live and act

Florence Ada Keynes was an academic, which was a rarity for her time. She graduated from Newnham College , which was founded in 1871 to enable women to study at Cambridge. Keynes was the youngest student ever there and one of the first to graduate from Cambridge. Keynes was considered a modern woman, was known for progressive views and as an advocate of feminist ideas.

After graduating from Newnham College, Florence Ada Keynes worked in the social field. She set up a youth employment office very early on. She was also one of the founders of the Papworth Village Settlement for Tuberculosis Sufferers , a forerunner of Papworth Hospital. She was also the secretary of the local charity that provided pensions for elderly people living in poverty and she worked with people in so-called workhouses , where they were given accommodation, work and support in integrating into society.

In August 1914, Florence Ada Keynes became the first female councilor on Cambridge City Council and later also a city judge. At the age of 70, she became mayor of Cambridge in November 1932, the second woman in office. In this role she managed a. a. also the committee responsible for building the new Cambridge Guildhall Town Hall , which was completed in 1939.

When Keynes resigned from her public office in 1939, she returned to writing and non-fiction. With By-Ways of Cambridge History she wrote a history of Cambridge which was published in 1947. In 1950 she published her memoir under the title Gathering up the threads, a study in family biography , in which she wrote about her ancestors and the upbringing, advancement and development of her children John Maynard, Margaret and Geoffrey.

family

Florence Ada Keynes was the daughter of John Brown, Baptist minister of Bunyan's Chapel in Bedford . Her mother Ada Haydon, b. Ford (1837-1929) was a teacher, her brother Sir Walter Langdon-Brown was the Regius Professor of Physics (Medicine) at Cambridge University.

She married the economist John Neville Keynes in 1882 , with whom she had a daughter and two sons:

Works

  • Through France on the eve of war: August, 1914. Cambridge Daily News, 1914, 8 pages, (English).
  • The need for more women magistrates. National Council of Women, London 1930, 3 pages, (English).
  • William Hazlitt, Geoffrey Keynes, Florence Ada Keynes: Selected essays of William Hazlitt. Nonesuch Press, London 1930, (English).
  • Jury service and the need for more women jurors. National Council of Women, London 1931, 6 pages.
  • Jury service, National Council of Women . London 1934, 4 pages.
  • The office of High Steward of the borough of Cambridge: an inquiry. University Press, Cambridge 1944, (English).
  • By-Ways of Cambridge History. University Press, Cambridge 1947, 1956, 2009 ISBN 978-1-108-00233-2 (English).
  • Gathering up the threads, a study in family biography. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge 1950, (English).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Herrmann: No capitalism is also no solution. Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-31159-5 .
  2. ↑ Bruno Ventelou: Millennial Keynes. An Introduction to the Origin, Development, and Later Currents of Keynesian Thought . ME Sharpe, Armonk, New York, London 2005, p. 39 .
  3. ↑ Florence Ada Brown Keynes (1861-1958). Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Keynes, Florence Ada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Florence Ada
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English historian, author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheetham, Manchester
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1958
Place of death Cambridge , England