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Keynes spent most of his long life between Cambridge and London, and is remembered as a great surgeon and a great bibliographer and bibliophile, like Harvey Cushing before him. In medicine he did pioneering work in blood transfusion as an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-1918. During the 1920s, as assistant to Sir Berkeley Moynihan and as Assistant Surgeon at St Bart's, he abandoned the orthodox radical operation for breast cancer in favor of conservative surgery and radium treatment. In the 1930s he became particularly interested in and adept at thyroid surgery. He served as Air Vice-Marshal and consulting surgeon for the Royal Air Force in World War II. In 1946 he published his paper advocating thymectomy in the treatment of mysasthenia gravis, to the dismay of his American colleagues, who didn't come around to Keynes's point of view until thirty years later. In literature, Keynes is especially famous for his William Blake (1921), and for his several works on William Harvey. He prepared some splendid biblio graphies of Boyle, Browne, Donne, Evelyn, Hooke, and others. He wrote the ballet Job, a Masque for Dancing [music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, choreography by Ninette de Valois] which was produced in London in 1931. Keynes was the close friend of Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. His wife of 57 years was Margaret Darwin [grand-daughter of Charles Darwin]; his brother was John Maynard Keynes, the economist. As a college student in 1908, Keynes entertained Henry James (1843-1916) on a Cambridge weekend, and visited Sir William Osler (1849-1919) at Oxford. Keynes was knighted in 1955, and published his autobiography, The Gates of Memory, in 1981. He died a few weeks after returning from Norwich where he had presented the principal address at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682).