Florence Ada Keynes (1861 -- February 1958) was a British author, social reformer, and Mayor of Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

 in 1932.

Family

She was the daughter of the Rev. John Brown

John Brown of Bedford

This article is about 19th and early 20th century theologian, for other people with the same name see John Brown .The Rev. John Brown, B.A. D.D. was a British theologian, historian, and pastor. He was born in 1830...

 of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford

Bedford

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town...

. Her brother was the Regius Professor of Physic

Regius Professor of Physic

Regius Professor of Physic may refer to:*Regius Professor of Physic , a professorship at the University of Cambridge*Regius Professor of Physic , a professorship at the University of Dublin, Trinity College...

 (medicine) Sir Walter Langdon-Brown

Walter Langdon-Brown

Sir Walter Langdon-Brown was a British medical doctor.He was the son of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford of and his wife Ada. His mother was a niece of John Langdon Down, describer of Down's syndrome...

.

She married the economist John Neville Keynes

John Neville Keynes

John Neville Keynes was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes.-Biography:Born in Salisbury, he was the son of Dr John Keynes and his wife Anna Maynard Neville . He was educated at Amersham Hall School, University College London and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he became a...

. They had two sons and a daughter:

• John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
  
   (1883-1946), perhaps the most renowned economist of the 20th century.
• Geoffrey Keynes
  Geoffrey Keynes
  Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was an English biographer, surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile...
  
   (1887-1982), a surgeon.
• Margaret Neville Keynes (1890-1974), who married Archibald Hill
  Archibald Hill
  Archibald Vivian Hill CH OBE FRS was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research...
  
   (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology) in 1913.

Work

She was an early graduate of Newnham College

Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick, and was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College...

, Cambridge. She ran juvenile labour exchange
She was involved with the Papworth Village Settlement, a settlement for sufferers of chronic Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

, the Charity Organisation Society which provided pensions for the elderly living in poverty, among other support to the 'deserving poor' on a case work basis. She worked with inmates of workhouse

Workhouse

In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment...

s to resettle them into society.

She was the first female Councillor

Councillor

A councillor or councilor is a member of a local government council, such as a city council.Often in the United States, the title is councilman or councilwoman.-United Kingdom:...

of Cambridge Borough Council, and its Mayor in 1932.

External links

• http://www.modern-humanities.info/people/Keynes_Florence.htm