Roger John Keynes FMedSci (; born 25 February 1951) is a British medical scientist. He is a Fellow of

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, and a professor within the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Keynes is the third of four sons. His father was

Richard Keynes Richard Darwin Keynes, CBE, FRS ( ; 14 August 1919 – 12 June 2010) was a British physiologist. The great-grandson of Charles Darwin, Keynes edited his great-grandfather's accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard into ''T ...

, through whom he is a great-great-grandson of

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. His mother was

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Ann Pinsent Adrian, who was the daughter of

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. ...

and his wife Hester (née Pinsent). His elder brother,

Randal Keynes Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS ( ; born 29 July 1948) is a British conservationist, author, and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. Family background Keynes was born in Cambridge, England. He is the son of the Hon. Anne Pinsent (née Adri ...

, is a conservationist and author, while his younger brother,

Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes, ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British author who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.< ...

, is a historian and a Fellow of Trinity, as was their father, Richard. Roger Keynes is married to Yasmina Keynes and is the father of Catholic writer and apologist
Laura Keynes
Oliver Keynes and Sophia Keynes.

External links

* http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?rjk10 * http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/keynes/ * http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/keynes/summary/neuro.php 1951 births Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge

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