Milo Keynes

William Milo Keynes (1924 to 2009) was a British doctor and author, educated at Oundle and the University of Cambridge. He was the third son of the surgeon Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Margaret Darwin, which made him a great-grandson of Charles Darwin and a nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. Beyond clinical practice he wrote and edited on the history of science and medicine, including essays on his uncle, a 1983 biography of his aunt Lydia Lopokova, a study of the iconography of Isaac Newton to 1800, and works on Mendelism in human genetics and on Sir Francis Galton. His interests in education and art led him to leave a number of rare artworks and documents, among them a portrait of John Maynard Keynes by Duncan Grant, to the Fitzwilliam Museum of the University of Cambridge after his death.