Stephen John Keynes OBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 FLS (born 19 October 1927) a great-grandson 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...

, is chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust.

Keynes is the fourth and only surviving son of 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 is also 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...

. His brothers were 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 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...

. In 1955 he married Mary Cecilia Knatchbull-Hugessen, daughter of the Canad

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

ian senator Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen

Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen

Adrian Norton Knatchbull-Hugessen was a Canadian lawyer and senator.Knatchbull-Hugessen was born in Ashford, Kent, England on 5 July 1891, the son of Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne and Ethel Mary Walker, daughter of Sir George Gustavus Walker.He was educated at Eton...

. They have the following children:

• Gregory Robert Edward Keynes (born 3 June 1956)
• Elizabeth Harriet Keynes (born 15 December 1957)
• Toby William Keynes (born 2 November 1959)
• Martha Paganel Keynes (born 25 April 1961)
• Zachary Edmund Keynes (born 18 October 1962)