Simon Keynes

Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University. He was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Keynes is the son of Richard Darwin Keynes and his wife Anne Adrian, and thus a member of the Keynes family (and, by extension, of the Darwin-Wedgwood family). His brothers are Randal Keynes and Roger Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, grandnephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. His nephew is the child actor Skandar Keynes. He has a son Henry with the musicologist and architectural historian Tethys Carpenter.

Keynes has published several books and numerous articles on aspects of Anglo-Saxon history; his particular interests lie in the field of Æthelred the Unready.

ee also

Keynes family

External links

* [http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/sdk13home.html Homepage]
* [http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/people/senior/skeynes.htm Simon Keynes] , Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge