John Neville Keynes came up to Pembroke in 1872; he received his B.A. in 1876 and his M.A. in 1879. He was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1876. He held a lectureship in Moral Sciences at Cambridge from 1883 to 1911. In 1910 he was elected as Registrary of the University. In 1911 he became an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College.