Stephen Keynes

Stephen John Keynes OBE FLS (19 October 1927 – 13 August 2017) was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust.^[1]

He was educated at The Hall School, Hampstead, Oundle School, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was an Open Scholar.^[2]

Keynes was the fourth son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin; he was also a nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. His brothers were Richard, Quentin and Milo. In 1955 he married Mary Cecilia Knatchbull-Hugessen, daughter of the Canadian senator Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen. They had the following children:

• Gregory Robert Edward Keynes (born 3 June 1956)
• Elizabeth Harriet Keynes (born 15 December 1957)
• Toby William Keynes (born 2 November 1959)
• Martha Paganel Keynes (born 25 April 1961)
• Zachary Edmund Keynes (born 18 October 1962)

Keynes was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a member of the Roxburghe Club.^[3][4]

See also

• Keynes family