Simon Douglas Keynes MA

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, PhD

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, Litt.D, FBA (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

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 in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University

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.

Biography

Keynes is the fourth and youngest son of Richard Darwin Keynes and his wife Anne Adrian, and thus a member of the Keynes family

Keynes family

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 (and, by extension, of the Darwin-Wedgwood family). His elder brothers are the conservationist and author Randal Keynes

Randal Keynes

Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS is a British conservationist, author and 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...

 and the medical scientist and fellow fellow of Trinity Roger Keynes

Roger Keynes

Roger John Keynes FMedSci is a British medical scientist. He is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a professor within the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience....

,. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes

Geoffrey Keynes

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 and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, grandnephew 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...

 and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

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. He has a son Henry with the musicologist and architectural historian Tethys Carpenter.

He was born in Cambridge

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 and educated at King's College School, The Leys School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He was lecturer in Anglo-Saxon History at Cambridge from 1978, reader in Anglo-Saxon History from 1992, and Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, from 1999. He has been a Fellow of Trinity College since 1976. From 1999-2006 he was Head of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

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, the Society of Antiquaries of London

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 and the British Academy

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, and sits on various of the latter's committees.

Keynes is also co-editor of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England (journal)

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 and is on the editorial board of Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. From 1993 to 2004 he was associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Works

• The Diplomas of King Aethelred The Unready (978–1016): A Study in Their Use as Historical Evidence, 1980 (trans, author of intro and notes, with M. Lapidge)
• Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, 1983
• Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1991; The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester, 1996

External links

• Homepage
• Simon Keynes, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
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