Geoffrey Keynes

Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes ( born March 25, 1887 in Cambridge, † July 5, 1982 ) 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, a lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge, 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 in London. During World War II he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps and then worked as a consulting physician. During this time he became an expert in the field of blood transfusion.

After Katherine Cox had rejected his marriage proposal, he married Margaret Elizabeth Darwin, a granddaughter of the famous Charles Darwin. He had with her four sons: Richard, Quentin, William and Stephen Keynes.

Due to an initiated in Cambridge Friendship Keynes was after the death of Rupert Brooke's 1915 steward of literary legacy, a task to which he nachkam with great care.

Works

He was passionately interested in English literature and devoted her studies much time. He was one of the greatest experts of 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. In addition, he published studies on John Ray, William Harvey and Robert Hooke.

• The Gates of Memory. Clarendon Press, London 1982, ISBN 0-19-812657-3 ( autobiography)

Source

• Http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_keynes.html

• Briton
• Surgeon
• Internist
• Bibliophile
• Physician ( 20th century )
• Born in 1887
• Died in 1982
• Man