Randal Keynes
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 Randal Keynes in 2009 |
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| Born | Randal Hume Keynes July 29, 1948 U.K. |
Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS (born July 29, 1948)[1] is a British conservationist, author and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the author of the intimate exploration of his famous ancestry, Annie's Box, subtitled Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution (2001), a book about the relationship between Darwin and his daughter Annie, whose early death deeply affected him and his views on religion.[2]
He has taken a leading role in the campaign to have Down House, Darwin's former home, designated a World Heritage Site.[3]
Keynes is the son of the Hon. Anne Pinsent (née Adrian) and physiologist Richard Keynes.[1] He is the great-nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the brother of the historian and Cambridge professor Simon Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian.[citation needed]
Keynes' son, Skandar (born 1991), is an actor best known for his role as Edmund Pevensie in the Narnia films. He also has a daughter, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4.
He is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.[4]
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- ^ a b thePeerage.com - Person Page 11859
- ^ Turney, Jon (2002-06-08). "Darwin's lost daughter". The Guardian. http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,,729232,00.html. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ Boxer, Sarah (2005-11-18). "An Image of Darwin, Carrying on His Work". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E4D9113EF93BA25752C1A9639C8B63. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters
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