John Maynard Keynes
46 Gordon Square · the economist at the heart of Bloomsbury
John Maynard Keynes changed the way the world thinks about economics; his ideas on government spending in a slump still shape policy today. He was also a devoted member of the Bloomsbury Group and lived for years at 46 Gordon Square.
As a young man his loves were other men, among them the painter Duncan Grant and the writer Lytton Strachey, before his later marriage to the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. English Heritage’s blue plaque marks the house.