ARCHIVES and SPECIAL COLLECTIONS QUEEN ELIZABETH II LIBRARY MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY, ST. JOHN'S, NL

Richard Keynes collection MF-394 Website: Archives and Special Collections Author: Amanda Jamieson Date: 2001

Scope and Content: This fonds consists of pages from a diary kept by Richard Keynes. In it he documents his attempted visit to Funk Island, Newfoundland, in 1939 in order to make a census of the small gannet colony there. While on Funk Island, Keynes and his friend, Oliver Davies, hoped to find Great Auk bones which they planned to sell in order to further finance their North American expedition to survey its entire gannet population.

Custodial History: The contents of this fonds were acquired from Richard Keynes on June 12, 1991.

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Biography or History: Richard Darwin Keynes was born in London, England on August 14, 1919, the eldest son of Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Margaret Elizabeth Darwin, grand-daughter of Charles Darwin. Keynes received his early schooling at Oundle School. His university education at Trinity College, Cambridge University, was interrupted by World War II. During the war, Keynes served as temporary experimental officer, with the HM Anti-Submarine Establishment and Admiralty Signals Establishment. After his service ended in 1945, he married Anne Pinset Adrien; they had four sons.

Keynes resumed his education at Cambridge University where he received his Ph.D. in 1949. He was a demonstrator (1949-1953) and lecturer (1953-1960) for the physiology department, won several academic awards, such as the Gedge Prize and Rolleston Memorial Prize, and in 1960 became head of the physiology department. Keynes retained this position until 1964, leaving to assume directorship of the Agricultural Research Council's Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham. He joined the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics as secretary general in 1972 and went on to become its president from 1981 to 1984.

Keynes authored many scientific publications while at Cambridge as well as editing Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary and Lydia and Maynard: the letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes. Richard Keynes continued his work at Cambridge as emeritus professor of physiology as of 1992. 1.0 Diary 1939 1.01 Diary 1939