Geoffrey Keynes

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Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1957
Geoffrey Keynes (right)

Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (born March 25, 1887 in Cambridge , † July 5, 1982 ibid) was an English surgeon , internist , scientist and bibliophile . He was the brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes .

Geoffrey Keynes was the younger son of John Neville Keynes , an economics professor at Cambridge University , and Florence Ada Brown, a successful writer and social reformer.

He studied at Pembroke College , Cambridge and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London . During the First World War he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps and then worked as an independent doctor. During this time he became an expert in the field of blood transfusion .

After Katherine Cox rejected his marriage proposal, he married Margaret Elizabeth Darwin, a granddaughter of the famous Charles Darwin . He had four sons with her: Richard, Quentin, William and Stephen Keynes. The actor Skandar Keynes (* 1991) is a great-grandson .

As a result of a friendship that had begun in Cambridge, Keynes became administrator of Rupert Brooke's literary estate in 1915, a task that he carried out with great care.

In 1955 he was raised to the personal nobility as a Knight Bachelor . In 1980 he became an honorary member of the British Academy .

Works

He was passionate about English literature and devoted a lot of time to her studies. He was one of the greatest experts on the work of William Blake and published biographies and bibliographies of English writers such as Sir Thomas Browne , John Evelyn , Siegfried Sassoon , John Donne and Jane Austen . He has also published studies on John Ray , William Harvey and Robert Hooke .

Web links

Commons : Geoffrey Keynes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 18, 2020 .