Florence Ada Keynes

Florence Ada Keynes (née Brown) (1861 -- February 1958) was a British author, social reformer, and Mayor of Cambridge in 1932. She was the daughter of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford. Her brother was the Regius Professor of Physic (medicine) Sir Walter Langdon-Brown. She married the economist John Neville Keynes. They had two sons and a daughter: She was an early graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge. She ran juvenile labour exchange She was involved with the Papworth Village Settlement, a settlement for sufferers of chronic Tuberculosis, the Charity Organisation Society which provided pensions for the elderly living in poverty, among other support to the 'deserving poor' on a case work basis. She worked with inmates of...