John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS was born on 1941 and is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.
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John Keay is known both for stylistic flair and meticulous research into archival primary sources, including centuries-old unpublished sources.
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John Keay has received several major honours including the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal.
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John Keay is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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John Keay was born on 18 September 1941 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, to parents of Scottish origin.
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John Keay's father Stanley Walter Keay was a master mariner and his mother Florence Jessie nee Keeping was a housewife.
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John Keay studied at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire before going on to read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he earned high honours.
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John Keay went to Kashmir for a fortnight's trout-fishing and liked it so much that he returned the following year, this time for six months.
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John Keay followed it with two volumes about the European exploration of the Western Himalayas in the 19th century: When Men and Mountains Meet and The Gilgit Game.
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John Keay's late first wife Julia Keay, nee Atkins, was a successful writer and historian.
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John Keay was the daughter of the politician Humphrey Atkins.
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John Keay had an uncle who was an Indian Civil Service officer in British India.