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Florence Ada Keynes ( née Brown; 10 March 1861 – 13 February 1958) was an English author, historian and politician. Career. Keynes was an early graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge [1] where her contemporaries included the economist Mary Marshall.
On the national stage she campaigned for the establishment of juvenile courts and urged women to act as jurors and magistrates. She was instrumental in the introduction of women police in 1931 after a campaign lasting seventeen years. Florence Keynes died on 13 February 1958 at her home in Cambridge, 6 Harvey Road.
Florence Ada Keynes. Book: By-Ways of Cambridge History. Published online: 07 September 2010. Print publication: 20 July 2009, pp 127-134. First published in: 1947.
Keynes's parents, John Neville and Florence Ada Keynes, emerge from Sir Roy Harrod's biography as rather shadowy figures. John Neville was a fellow of. Pembroke College, Cambridge, a logician and economist. He seems to have. been a kind, modest, considerate, retiring man, honorable and punctilious, with.
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- Keynes and His Parents
Cllr Florence Ada Keynes was one of the most pioneering women of the early-mid 20th Century in Cambridge. Students of economics may recognise her as the mother of John Maynard Keynes, the economist and former Treasury civil servant.
Antony Carpen’s prolific research, passion and information about the ‘Women who transformed Cambridge’ is helping to ensure the names of pioneers such as Florence Ada Keynes, Eglantyne Jebb, Daisy Hopkins and Clara Rackham are remembered. “We’ve forgotten these women and that’s not right.
Feb 22, 2019 · 22 Feb 2019. Page Range: 17–18. Collection: Economics 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118569.00009. Restricted access. Abstract. Florence Ada Keynes, the mother of John Maynard Keynes and wife of John Neville Keynes, had a prolific career in her own right in politics and public service.
