Geoffrey Keynes [SEP] father
Geoffrey Keynes was born on 25 March 1887 in Cambridge, England. His father was John Neville Keynes, an economics lecturer at the University of Cambridge and his mother was Florence Ada Brown, a successful author and a social reformer. Geoffrey Keynes was the third child, after his older brother, the prominent economist John Maynard Keynes, and his sister Margaret, who married the Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Archibald Hill.
He was educated at Rugby School, where he became friends with British Poet Rupert Brooke. He was appointed
. His paternal grandfather was the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes, brother to the economist John Maynard Keynes. Randal Keynes is the brother of two Cambridge professors, Simon (historian) and Roger (medical scientist).
Randal Keynes has two children with Zelfa Cecil Hourani, also from a prominent intellectual family, originally from Lebanon. Zelfa's father Cecil was an advisor to the late Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba and his two brothers were Albert, a major historian of the Middle East, and George, philosopher, historian, and classicist.