John Maynard Keynes, the founder of Keynesian economics, was an English economist descended from the elite Keynes bloodline. Keynes was also a director for the Bank of England from 1941 through 1946.

Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES. His radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism by Robert B. Reich Monday, March 29, 1999 at content.time.com:
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“He hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress.”

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