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1: Maynard Keynes as a figure of intellectual authority and cultural benevolence, surrounded by rare books in his Bloomsbury house. (Tim Gidal/Picture Post/Getty Images)

2: Keynes, aged about fourteen, shortly before starting at Eton, where he won most school prizes and learnt the rudiments of statecraft. (Archives Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; by kind permission of Susannah Burn)

3: ‘The peerless Maynard’ was by his mid-thirties chief of the Treasury department responsible for the London government’s external finances and inter-Allied finance. (Archives Centre, King’s College, Cambridge)

4: Keynes attended the Genoa Conference, which was charged with the conciliation of European capitalism with Russian communism, as special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. (Private Collection/© Leemage/Bridgeman Images)

5: Duncan Grant with Keynes. In 1908 Keynes wrote to Grant: ‘I want to see you again dreadfully and find that even in the midst of a crowd I am continually sinking into a trance and thinking about you.’ (Private Collection/Bridgeman Images)

6: Bertrand Russell, Keynes and Lytton Strachey in 1915: three Apostles, members of Cambridge’s Immoral Front, conscientious objectors, skirmishers in Bloomsbury’s cultural vanguard. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

7: Keynes addressing the Bretton Woods monetary and financial conference in 1944. He performed there, he said, the combined tasks of economist, financier, politician, propagandist, lawyer, prophet and soothsayer. (akg-images)

8: Lydia Lopokova and Keynes on their balcony overlooking Gordon Square in 1940. Her protective love and gaiety kept him alive, and enabled his greatest accomplishments. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)