Quentin George Keynes was a bibliophile.

Keynes was born in London

London

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, the second son of Geoffrey Keynes

Geoffrey Keynes

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

 and his wife Margaret, the daughter of George Howard Darwin who in turn was the son of 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...

, making him the great-grandson of Charles Darwin (see Darwin — Wedgwood family

Darwin — Wedgwood family

The Darwin–Wedgwood family is actually two interrelated English families, descended from the prominent 18th century doctor, Erasmus Darwin, and Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery firm, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, the most notable member of which was Charles Darwin...

). He was also the nephew of the renowned 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...

. His older brother 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...

 was a physiologist, and younger brothers Milo

Milo Keynes

William Milo Keynes, MD, FRCS was a British doctor and author.Keynes was the third son of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and a nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes...

 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...

 both writers.

Keynes moved to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in 1939. Shortly after the Second World War he started his life as an explorer of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 and sub-equatorial islands of the Atlantic

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

 and Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

s. He made several films, and wrote several articles for the National Geographic Magazine

National Geographic Magazine

National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded...

. He collected books principally on the great explorers of the 19th century, but also travel

Travel

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, natural history

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 and modern literature

Modern literature

Modern literature can either refer to*modernist literature *modern literature ....

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A biography of him was published in 2004 by his nephew, the historian Simon Keynes

Simon Keynes

Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University.-Biography:...

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External links

• http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/Quentin%20Keynes.html