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He has taken a leading role in the campaign to have [[Down House]], Darwin's former home, designated a [[World Heritage Site]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Sarah |last=Boxer |title=An Image of Darwin, Carrying on His Work |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E4D9113EF93BA25752C1A9639C8B63 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=2005-11-18 |accessdate=2008-02-18 }}</ref> |
He has taken a leading role in the campaign to have [[Down House]], Darwin's former home, designated a [[World Heritage Site]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Sarah |last=Boxer |title=An Image of Darwin, Carrying on His Work |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E4D9113EF93BA25752C1A9639C8B63 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=2005-11-18 |accessdate=2008-02-18 }}</ref> |
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Keynes is the son of the Hon. Anne Pinsent ([[married and maiden names|née]] Adrian) and physiologist [[Richard Keynes]].<ref name=peer>[http://www.thepeerage.com/p11859.htm thePeerage.com - Person Page 11859<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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]]. |
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Keynes' son, [[Skandar Keynes|Skandar]] (born 1991), is an actor best known for his role as [[Edmund Pevensie]] in the [[The Chronicles of Narnia (film series)|Narnia films]]. He also has a daughter, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who has appeared in various productions for [[BBC Radio 4]]. |
Keynes' son, [[Skandar Keynes|Skandar]] (born 1991), is an actor best known for his role as [[Edmund Pevensie]] in the [[The Chronicles of Narnia (film series)|Narnia films]]. He also has a daughter, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who has appeared in various productions for [[BBC Radio 4]]. |
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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' 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]
See also
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
peerwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Turney, Jon (2002-06-08). "Darwin's lost daughter". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ Boxer, Sarah (2005-11-18). "An Image of Darwin, Carrying on His Work". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters
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