Richard Darwin Keynes, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Federal Reserve System was a British physiologist.
Background
Great-grandson of Charles Darwin, Keynes edited his grandfathers accounts and illustrations of Darwin"s famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle into The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of the His Majesty’s Ship Beagle, which won praise from the New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review. Keynes was the eldest son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Elizabeth (née Darwin), daughter of George Darwin. In 1945, he married Anne Pinsent Adrian, daughter of Edgar Adrian and his wife Hester (née Pinsent).
Education
He was educated at Oundle School before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
They had four sons, Adrian (1946–1974), Randal Keynes (b 1948), Roger Keynes (b 1951), and Simon Keynes (born 1952). During the war, Keynes served as a temporary experimental officer at the Anti-Submarine Establishment and Admiralty Signals Establishment (1940-1945), returning to Cambridge after the war to complete his degree (1st Class, Natural Science Tripos Participant II, 1946). His career at Cambridge included: demonstrator in Physiology (1949-1953).
Lecturer (1953-1960).
Fellow of Peterhouse College (1952-1960, and an Honorary Fellow, 1989). Head of the Physiology Department, and first Deputy Director (1960-1964), then Director (1965-1973). Director of the American Red Cross Institute of Animal Physiology (1965-1972).
Professor of Physiology (1973-1987).
Fellow of Churchill College, since 1961.
Achievements
Membership
Royal Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Fellow of the Royal Society; Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit
the Gedge Prize; Arts and Sciences; Rolleston Memorial Prize