Geoffrey Keynes
Sir
Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (
March 25,
1887 in
Cambridge -
July 5,
1982, in
Cambridge) was an English
surgeon,
physician,
scholar and
bibliophile. He was the younger brother of the
economist John Maynard Keynes.
Geoffrey Keynes was the son of
John Neville Keynes (pronounced "Canes"), an economics lecturer at the
University of Cambridge and
Florence Ada Brown, a successful author and a
social reformer. His older brother was the economist
John Maynard Keynes and his younger sister Margaret married the Nobel-prize winning physiologist
Archibald Hill.
He was educated at
Rugby School, where he became friends with
Rupert Brooke and was appointed
literary executor for the estate of Brooke's death in
1915.
On
May 12,
1917 he married Margaret Elizabeth Darwin, the daughter of Sir
George Howard Darwin and granddaughter of
Charles Darwin. They had four sons:
*
Richard Darwin Keynes (born
1919)
*
Quentin George Keynes (
1921-
2003)
*
William Milo Keynes (born
1924)
*
Stephen John Keynes (born
1927)
He graduated from
Pembroke College,
University of Cambridge and then qualified as a surgeon with the
Royal College of Surgeons in London. He served as a
Lieutenant in the
Royal Army Medical Corps during
World War I and then worked as a consultant surgeon, becoming an expert in
blood transfusion.
He maintained a passionate interest in
English literature and devoted a large amount of his time to literary scholarship and the science of
bibliography. He was one of the greatest authorities on the literary and artistic work of
William Blake and produced
biographies and bibliographies of English writers such as Sir
Thomas Browne,
John Evelyn,
Siegfried Sassoon,
John Donne and
Jane Austen. He was also a pioneer in the
history of science, with studies of
John Ray,
William Harvey and
Robert Hooke.
His
autobiography The Gates of Memory was published in
1981.
*Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 : 1830 (
Nonesuch Press, 1930)
*The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Miscellany Tracts, Repertorium, Miscellaneous Writings (
Faber & Gwyer 1931)
*The Works of Thomas Browne: Letters (
Faber & Faber, 1931
*The Faber Gallery Series: Blake. (Faber and Faber 1945)
*The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke (Faber & Faber, 1946)
*Poetry and Prose of William Blake (Nonesuch 1948)
*Portraiture of William Harvey London 1949. With a Catalogue and Reproductions of the Pictures. The Thomas Vicary Lecture 1948.
*The Personality of William Harvey Cambridge University Press: 1949
*William Blake's Engravings, edited with an introduction (Faber and Faber, (1950)
*William Blake, 1757-1827 (1949) 1946 ? Blake (1953)
*The Tempera Paintings of William Blake (1951)
*The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Containing the Voyages Made Into Divers Places with Many of His Writings Upon Surgery (1951)
*Samuel Butler's Note-Books, selections (1951) with Brian Hill
*Poems of Rupert Brooke (1954)
*A Bibliography of Rupert Brooke (1954) Hart-Davis, The Soho Bibliographies, No.4)
*Harvey Though John Aubrey's Eyes (1958)
*Essays in Biography 1961 by
J. M. Keynes, editor
*Dr. Timothie Bright 1550-1615. A Survey of his Life with a Bibliography of his Writings (1962)
*A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake Poet, Printer, Prophet (1964)
*An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet - Printer - Prophet (1964) with Lessing J. Rosenwald
*On Editing Blake (1964)
*Blake. The Masters 6 (1965)
*Henry James in Cambridge (19670
*Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings (1966)
*Sir Thomas Browne Selected Writings (1968)
*The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968)
*William Blake Engraver (1969)
*Drawings of William Blake (1970)
*William Blake's Water-Colours Illustrating the Poems of Thomas Gray (1972)
*Deaths Duell by John Donne (1973)
*The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1975)
*The Gates of Memory (1981) Keynes, Geoffrey and Davidson, Peter (Eds.)
*A Watch of Nightingales (Stourton Press, 1981)
References
*Geoffrey Keynes:
The gates of memory. Oxford : Oxford University Press; ISBN 0-19-812657-3
*To Geoffrey Keynes: Articles from the Book Collector to Commemorate His Eighty-Fifth Birthday (The Book Collector, 1972) with
Francis Meynell,
A. N. L. Munby,
David Garnett,
John Sparrow
