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Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Name
Quentin George KEYNES
, 8127
Birth
1921
Death
2003
Father
Sir Geoffrey KEYNES
, 7874 (1887-1982)
Mother
Margaret Elizabeth DARWIN
, 5954 (1885-1957)
Notes for Quentin George KEYNES
Quentin George Keynes (17 June 1921 - 26 February 2003) was a
bibliophile
.
Keynes was born in
London
, the second son of
Geoffrey Keynes
and his wife Margaret, the daughter of
George Howard Darwin
who in turn was the son of
Charles Darwin
, making him the great-grandson of Charles Darwin (see
Darwin — Wedgwood family
). He was also the nephew of the renowned economist,
John Maynard Keynes
. His older brother
Richard
was a physiologist, and younger brothers
Milo
and
Stephen
both writers.
Keynes moved to the
United States
in 1939. Shortly after the
Second World War
he started his life as an explorer of
Africa
and sub-equatorial islands of the
Atlantic
and
Indian Oceans
. He made several films, and wrote several articles for the
National Geographic Magazine
. He collected books principally on the great explorers of the 19th century, but also
travel
,
natural history
and
modern literature
.
A biography of him was published in 2004 by his nephew, the historian
Simon Keynes
.
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