Randal Keynes

Randal Hume Keynes OBE (born July 29, 1948) is a British conservationist and author and a 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" a book about the relationship between Darwin and his daughter Annie whose early death deeply affected him and his views on religion. [cite news |first=Jon |last=Turney |title=Darwin's lost daughter |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,,729232,00.html |work=The Guardian |date=2002-06-08 |accessdate=2008-02-18 ]

He has taken a leading role in the campaign to have Down House, Darwin's former home, designated a World Heritage Site. [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 ]

Keynes is the son of the Hon. Ann Pinsent (née Adrian) and physiologist Richard Keynes. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p11859.htm thePeerage.com - Person Page 11859 ] ] 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, Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian.

Keynes' son, Skandar (born 1991), is an actor. He also has a daughter, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4.

ee also

*Keynes family

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/keynes/index.htm BBC interview with Randal Keynes]