Quentin Keynes
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The cover of Quentin Keynes' biography by his nephew Simon Keynes. |
Quentin George Keynes (
17 June 1921 -
26 February 2003) was a
bibliophile.
Keynes (pronounced "Canes") was born in
London, the second son of
Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Elizabeth, 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 â€" Wedgwood family). He was also the nephew of the renowned economist,
John Maynard Keynes. His older brother
Richard is 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.
* by
S.D. Keynes (2004)
Quentin Keynes (1921-2003) Explorer, Film-Maker, Lecturer, and Book-Collector ISBN 0-907435-17-3
* http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/Quentin%20Keynes.html
* http://www.network54.com/Forum/243349/message/1048385154/Quentin+Keynes+-+African+explorer+-+dies+at+81+(testing+1-2-3)
