Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Keynes, George

by Thomas Seccombe (1866-1923)

KEYNES, GEORGE, alias Brett (1630–1659), jesuit, son of Edward Keynes of Compton Pauncefoot and his wife, Ann Brett, both of old Roman catholic families resident in Somerset, was born in 1630, and entered his novitiate as a jesuit at Rome 2 Jan. 1649. He studied at St. Omer, and, having been ordained priest, sailed for the China mission in December 1654, but died at the Philippine Islands in 1659. He published a translation of the ‘Roman Martyrology,’ of which a second and much enlarged edition was printed at St. Omer in 1667.

[Foley's Records, iv. and vi. 371; Oliver's Collections, p. 125; Visitation of Somerset (Harl. Soc.), vol. xi.]

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