ABSTRACT
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1877-1982), surgeon, bibliographer and literary scholar, was the brother of Lord John Maynard Keynes the economist. He was a man of diverse talents: pioneer in bloodtransfusion, helping to found the London blood-transfusion service, Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery from 1958 to 1966, and author of a ballet, Job, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He compiled bibliographies and editions of a number of authors, including Donne, John Evelyn, Sir Thomas Browne, William Blake, Jane Austen and William Hazlitt, and wrote biographies of his friends Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon, and one of Sir William Harvey. He recalled the impact upon forward-looking young readers of E.K.Chambers’s edition of Donne’s poems, and of Gosse’s Life and Letters of John Donne (‘The Donne Revival’, in A City Tribute to John Donne, 1972, p. 5).
