13 Facts About Keith Albarn

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

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's brother was born on 12 April 1944 at Nottingham Women's Hospital.

Keith Albarn's mother was Lucy Joan Hockley of Sileby, and his father was Edward Albarn.

Keith Albarn's father was an architect, who trained at the School of Architecture at Leicester College of Arts and Technology; his mother, Joan Hockley, 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.

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

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.

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 [.