Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 (Baron Keynes, economist)
Biography
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), Baron Keynes and economist, was born in Cambridge on 5 June 1883, the son of Florence and Dr. John Neville Keynes, fellow of Pembroke College and later University Registrar. He was educated at Eton, and came up to King's College, Cambridge as a scholar in 1902. After he was awarded his undergraduate degree, he entered the Home Civil Service and served for two years at the India Office. He left the civil service in 1908, however, and in 1909 was elected a fellow of King's College and remained so until his death. He was lecturer in Economics from 1911 to 1937 and in 1919 he also accepted the post of Second Bursar of the college. In 1924 he began his memorable tenure as first bursar, changing completely the philosophy by which the college managed its assets, and in 1925, he married Lydia Lopokova. He served on a number of government committees in the 1920s and 30s, but - as with everyone else - it was during the two world wars that most was demanded of him. During World War I he became a civil servant in the Treasury and by 1917 had gained a position of some responsibility. He was the Treaury's representative at the peace conference that ended the war. At the invitation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Keynes placed his services at the disposal of his country again in 1940, after war had broken out a second time. As an advisor to the treasury, he was much involved in both the problems of war finance and plans for the later transistion from war to peace. Among other things, Keynes acted as one of the negotiators of Lend-Lease, and played a leading part at the Bretton Woods conference. He was rewarded for his services during the first war with a C.B., and for those during the second by elevation to the peerage, becoming Baron Keynes of Tilton. He died on Easter Sunday, 21 April 1946, after several years of ill-health.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Cambridge Printing Exhibition 1940 Scrapbook, 1940
Album so labelled on spine. It contains: a copy of the printed prospectus; letters from Reynolds Stone, John Johnson, James Guthrie, J. M. Keynes, Bernard Darwin, Graham Pollard, O. F. Morshead, G. D. H. Cole, Lord Esher, Jan van Krimpen, Percy Muir, C. H. St. J. Hornby, J. Fletcher, Michael Clapham; specimen slips for the catalogue, prospectus for the catalogue, and clippings.
Cambridge University Free Trade Association: letters mostly concerning subscriptions, 1906-1911 (Circa)
copy: From Bibliographical Notes & Queries II. No.6, 1936; 200. Newton: Principia (1687), 1936 (circa)
Relating to editions of Newton's Principia: Add.8214/1-66: letters to Munby; 67-118: copies of letters from Munby; 119-124: other letters; 125-137: other items; 138-145 other items (1955 and undated)
copy of reply to Messrs Dawson & Sons, Cannon House, Pilgrim Street, EC 4, 29 May 1936
Relating to editions of Newton's Principia: Add.8214/1-66: letters to Munby; 67-118: copies of letters from Munby; 119-124: other letters; 125-137: other items; 138-145 other items (1955 and undated)
Correspondence and papers, 1936-1968
Relating to editions of Newton's Principia: Add.8214/1-66: letters to Munby; 67-118: copies of letters from Munby; 119-124: other letters; 125-137: other items; 138-145 other items (1955 and undated)
Correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, 1940
Includes a list of his books for exhibition in the hand of Stanley Morison.
From John Maynard Keynes [1st Baron Keynes, Economist], Gower St, 18 June 1915
An invitation, signed, in the hand of Keynes's mother following Keynes's appendectomy
From John Maynard Keynes [1st Baron Keynes, Economist], King's College, Cambridge, 10 June 1917
Thanks for congratulations [on award of CB?]
John Maynard, Geoffrey and Margaret Keynes: The Gem
Children's magazine produced by the Keynes family, under the editorship of Margaret Neville Keynes and including contributions from her brothers John Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes. The Gem was first produced on 7 January 1898, and ran to 11 numbers, before it became The Acorn in 1899. The editions contain stories, poems, editorials, and pen and watercolour drawings. There are also accompanying notes on The Gem and its successor publications.
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes: Correspondence to Francis Jenkinson and Arthur Cole, 1912-1941
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
John Maynard Keynes: Dr Melchior
A holograph manuscript of chapters I and II of 'Dr Melchior', the memoir of John Maynard Keynes and notes made during the Versailles conference. There is an accompanying letter from Austin Robinson, Royal Economic Society, to Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 25 February 1972, 1 page, regarding Dr Melchior, a defeated enemy.
John Maynard Keynes: Lecture on Newton
A holograph manuscript of a talk on Sir Isaac Newton delivered by John Maynard Keynes at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1942. There is an accompanying typescript of a talk delivered by Geoffrey Keynes at the Newton Tercentenary celebrations in the Hall of Trinity College, 17 July 1946, and a newscutting from the Times literary supplement, 1971, regarding J.M. Keynes.
Order of service in memory of John Maynard Keynes
'Westminster Abbey order of service in memory of John Maynard Keynes...May 2nd 1946', written and illuminated by Kenneth Breeze. There is an accompanying letter from Geoffrey Keynes to his mother, 15 December 1946, 2 pages, enclosing the order of service.
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