Quentin Keynes
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Quentin Keynes (1921 - February 2003) was a bibliophile.
Keynes was born in London, the son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of George Howard Darwin who in turn was the son of Charles Darwin, making him the grandson of Charles Darwin (see Darwin -- Wedgwood family). He is the nephew of the renowned economist, John Maynard Keynes.
Keynes moved to the United States in 1939. Shortly after the Second World War he started his life as an explorer of Africa and sub-equatorial islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He made several films, and wrote several articles for the National Geographic Magazine. He collected books principally on the great explorers of the 19th century, but also travel, natural history and modern literature.