William Milo Keynes, MD, FRCS ( ; 9 August 1924 – 18 February 2009) was a British doctor and author. He was educated at

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and

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. He was the brother of

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and

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. He was interested in education and art, publishing books and essays about John Maynard Keynes,

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a " natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the g ...

, and the history of science. Upon his death he bequeathed a number of rare artworks to the

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/ref> Milo was descended from a Cambridgeshire family that included both the lineage from two great families, the Keynes (of

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) and Darwins (of

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...

). He was the third son of Sir

Geoffrey Keynes Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes ( ; 25 March 1887, Cambridge – 5 July 1982, Cambridge) was a British surgeon and author. He began his career as a physician in World War I, before becoming a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where h ...

, and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir

George Darwin Sir George Howard Darwin, (9 July 1845 – 7 December 1912) was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. Biography George H. Darwin was born at Down House, Kent, the fifth chi ...

. He was a great-grandson of the world-renowned scientist

, and the nephew of the famous Cambridge economist

. In 2010, his estate bequeathed a number of artworks and rare documents, including a portrait of

Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major i ...

, to the

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Books

In 1983 Keynes edited a short collection of essays on his uncle and a biography of his uncle's wife,

Lydia Lopokova Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidia Vasilyevna Lopukhova, russian: Лидия Васильевна Лопухова; 21 October 1891 – 8 June 1981) was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century. Lopokova trained at the I ...

. He also wrote books on the

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, on

and on

Mendelism Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popular ...

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Bibliography

* ''Essays on

'' * ''A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics'' * ''The Iconography of Sir

to 1800'' * * ''Sir Francis Galton: The Legacy of His Ideas'' * ''Evolutionary Studies: Centenary Celebration of the Life of Julian Huxley''

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