Randal Keynes

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Randal Hume Keynes (born July 29, 1948)[1] is a British conservationist and author and a 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 daughter Annie whose early death deeply affected him and his views on religion.[2]

He has taken a leading role in the campaign to have Down House, Darwin's former home, designated a World Heritage Site.[3]

Keynes is the son of the Hon. Ann Pinsent (née Adrian) and physiologist Richard Keynes.[1] His son, Skandar, is an actor, most notable for his roles in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. He is the great nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the brother of the historian and Cambridge professor Simon Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes, Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian.

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  1. ^ a b thePeerage.com - Person Page 11859
  2. ^ Turney, Jon. "Darwin's lost daughter", The Guardian, 2002-06-08. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 
  3. ^ Boxer, Sarah. "An Image of Darwin, Carrying on His Work", New York Times, 2005-11-18. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 

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