Florence Ada Keynes
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Florence Ada Keynes (née Brown) (1861 -- February 1958) was a British author and social reformer.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Family
She was the daughter of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford. Her brother was the Regius Professor of Physic (medicine) Sir Walter Langdon-Brown.
She married the economist John Neville Keynes. They had two sons and a daughter:
- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), perhaps the most renowned economist of the 20th century.
- Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), a surgeon.
- Margaret Neville Keynes (1890-1974), who married Archibald Hill (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology) in 1913.
[edit] Work
She was an early graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge. She ran juvenile labour exchange She was involved with the Papworth Village Settlement, a settlement for sufferers of chronic Tuberculosis, the Charity Organisation Society which provided pensions for the elderly living in poverty, among other support to the 'deserving poor' on a case work basis. She worked with inmates of workhouses to resettle them into society.
She was the first female Councillor of Cambridge Borough Council, and its Mayor in 1932.
