Stephen John Keynes (19 October 1927 – 13 August 2017) was a great-grandson of
Charles Darwin, and chairman of the
Charles Darwin Trust
The Charles Darwin Trust is a British educational charity.
The trust was founded in 1999 by Stephen Keynes.
The trust was part of a campaign with other organizations to back the bid to make Down House a World Heritage Site
A World Heritage ...
.
He was educated at
The Hall School, Hampstead,
Oundle School, and the
University of Cambridge.
Keynes was the fourth son of
Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir
George Darwin; he was 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)
See also
*
Keynes family
References
External links
The Charles Darwin TrustStephen Keynes: ''Times'' obituary, 16 November 2017
1927 births
2017 deaths
People educated at The Hall School, Hampstead
People educated at Oundle School
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Stephen
Darwin–Wedgwood family
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge
British bankers
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