Richard Darwin Keynes,
CBE,
FRS[1] (14 August 1919 – 12 June 2010) was a
British physiologist. He was a great-grandson of
Charles Darwin, and edited accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard the
HMS Beagle into The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, which won praise from the
New York Review of Books and
The New York Times Book Review.
Keynes was the eldest son of
Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Elizabeth (née Darwin), daughter of
George Darwin. He was educated at
Oundle School before going up to
Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1945 he married Anne Pinsent Adrian, daughter of
Edgar Adrian and his wife
Hester (née Pinsent). They had four sons, Adrian (1946–1974),[3]
Randal Keynes (b. 1948),
Roger Keynes (b. 1951),[4] and
Simon Keynes (born 1952).