William Milo Keynes, MD, FRCS (9 August 1924 - 18 February 2009) was a British doctor and author.

Keynes was the third son of Sir Geoffrey Keynes

Geoffrey Keynes

Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was an English biographer, surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile...

, and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin

George Darwin

Sir George Howard Darwin, FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician.-Biography:Darwin was born at Down House, Kent, the second son and fifth child of Charles and Emma Darwin...

. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

, and a nephew of the economist 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...

. He was the brother of Richard

Richard Keynes

Richard Darwin Keynes, CBE, FRS was a British physiologist. He was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and edited 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...

, Quentin

Quentin Keynes

Quentin George Keynes was a bibliophile.Keynes was born in London, the second son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret, the daughter of George Howard Darwin who in turn was the son of Charles Darwin, making him the great-grandson of Charles Darwin . He was also the nephew of the renowned...

 and Stephen

Stephen Keynes

Stephen John Keynes OBE FLS a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, is chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust.Keynes is the fourth and only surviving son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin; he is also a nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. His...

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He published a collection of essays on his uncle and a biography of his uncle's wife, Lydia Lopokova. He also wrote books on the history of science

History of science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....

, on Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...

 and on Mendelism in human genetics

Human genetics

Human genetics describes the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population genetics, developmental genetics, clinical genetics,...

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See also

• Keynes family
  Keynes family
  The Keynes family is a prominent English family that has included notable economists, writers, and actors.The descendants of Geoffrey Keynes , are also related to the Darwin — Wedgwood family.-Family tree of modern Keynes family:-History:...
  
  
• Darwin-Wedgwood family