Randal Keynes

Who is Randal Keynes?

Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS is a British conservationist, author and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the author of the intimate exploration of his famous ancestry, Annie's Box, subtitled Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution, a book about the relationship between Darwin and his daughter Annie, whose early death deeply affected him.

He has taken a leading role in the campaign to have Down House, Darwin's former home, designated a World Heritage Site.

Keynes is the son of the Hon. Anne Pinsent and physiologist Richard Keynes. He is the great-nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the brother of the Cambridge Professors Simon Keynes, and Roger Keynes whose daughter – Keynes’s niece – is the Catholic writer and apologist Laura Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian.

Keynes’s son, Skandar, is an actor best known for his role as Edmund Pevensie in the Narnia films. He also has a daughter, Soumaya Keynes, who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4.