The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Member of the Darwin family
Gender:
Male
Is:
Work field:
Birth:
19 October 1927
Family:
Father:
Geoffrey Keynes
Siblings:
Quentin Keynes
Milo Keynes
Richard Keynes
The details
Biography
Stephen John Keynes OBE FLS (born 19 October 1927) a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, is chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust.
Keynes is the fourth and only surviving son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin; he is 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 have 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)