Florence Ada Keynes
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Florence Ada Keynes (née Brown) (1861 -- February 1958) was a British author and social reformer.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Family
She was the daughter of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford. Her brother was the Regius Professor of Physic (medicine) Sir Walter Langdon-Brown.
She married the economist John Neville Keynes. They had two sons and a daughter:
- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the economist.
- Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), a surgeon.
- Margaret Neville Keynes (1890-1974), who married Archibald Hill (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology) in 1913.
[edit] Work
She was an early graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge. She ran juvenile labour exchange She was involved with the Papworth Village Settlement, a settlement for sufferers of chronic Tuberculosis, the Christy Organisation Society which provided pensions for the elderly living in poverty. She worked with inmates of workhouses to resettle them into society.
She was the first female Councillor of Cambridge Borough Council, and its Mayor in 1932.
