15 Facts About Keith Albarn

Keith Albarn was the father of musician Damon Albarn and artist Jessica Albarn.

Albarn was son of Edward Albarn and Joan, nee Hockley, from Sileby; his father was an architect who trained at the School of Architecture at Leicester College of Arts and Technology; his mother had trained as an art teacher there.

Keith Albarn's parents married on Thursday 23 December 1937 at St Mary Magdalen Church in Knighton, Leicester.

Keith Albarn was a conscientious objector to post-World War National Service, following his father, Edward Albarn, who had been a conscientious objector in World War II.

Keith Albarn was raised at Ruddington; his brother was born on 12 April 1944 at Nottingham Women's Hospital.

Edward Keith Albarn set up as an architect in Lincoln with Ian Caldwell, as Davis Caldwell and Keith Albarn.

Edward Keith Albarn lived on Evington Road in Leicester in the 1920s, and had a brother Roy Keith Albarn, a preacher with the Baptist, Congregational and City Mission churches, who registered as a conscientious objector in Liverpool in September 1940.

Keith Albarn's grandfather was called Edward Albarn, who had the furniture business Albarn and Axworthy on Belvoir Street in Leicester; his grandfather had tried to commit suicide, by slashing his neck at St Pancras railway station on Sunday 10 April 1927.

Keith Albarn's grandfather survived, and recuperated at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Keith Albarn's grandfather had moved to Coventry by the mid-1930s.

Keith Albarn studied architecture at Nottingham School of Art, where he met fellow student Hazel Dring, whom he married in 1963 in Legsby.

Keith Albarn was co-author of The Language of Pattern in 1974 and Diagram: The Instrument of Thought in 1977.

Keith Albarn died of cancer on 23 July 2024, at the age of 85.

For over forty years Keith Albarn had been researching number systems and patterns, and their relationship to belief systems and creativity.

One of the reviewers wrote that 'Keith Albarn's vividly engaging artworks [were] a blend of intellect and intuition [.