Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University. He was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Keynes is the son of Richard Darwin Keynes and his wife Anne Adrian. His brothers are Randal Keynes and Roger Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, grandnephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. His nephew is the child actor Skandar Keynes. He has a son Henry with the musicologist and architectural historian Tethys Carpenter. Professor Keynes has been Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon since 1999, and was Head of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2006. He has published several books and numerous articles on aspects of Anglo-Saxon history; his particular interests lie in the field of Æthelred the Unready. Although quite capable of being late for his own lectures, Professor Keynes is much loved by his students in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, by whom he is affectionately known as SDK.
