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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, née Brown le 10 mars 1861 à Cheetam, Manchester, et morte le 13 février 1958 à Cambridge, est une personnalité politique et sociale britannique, connue pour son implication en faveur de réformes sociales et son élection comme maire de Cambridge en 1932.
Florence Ada Keynes, de soltera Brown el 10 de marzo de 1861 en Cheetam, Manchester, y murió el 13 de febrero de 1958 en Cambridge, es una figura política y social británica conocida por su participación en la reforma social y su elección como alcalde de Cambridge en 1932.
29 de sept. de 2010 · Keynes nació en Cambridge el día 5 de junio de 1883, hijo de un economista profesor de la Universidad de Cambridge, John Neville Keynes, y de Florence Ada, una importante escritora de la época. Antes de conocer en 1918 a su mujer Lidya Lopokova, se le asociaron varias parejas masculinas, confirmando su homosexualidad.
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.
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. As Florence Ada Brown, she was one of the earliest students at Newnham College in the very late 1870s.
