Discovered today that Keynes was friends with a Hungarian history student at King's in the 1910s, who even has a memorial in the chapel..

Ferenc Békássy, a now largely forgotten poet, became the first foreign member of the Apostles at Cambridge after Keynes' recommendation. And died tragically young in WWI, hence the memorial.

By the way Békássy was very close to his cousin Ilona Duczynska, the Austro-Hungarian revolutionary whose second husband was Karl Polányi...

and apparently he tried to impress Keynes by inviting him to his family's home in Western Hungary. Following the trip in 1912 Keynes had the impression that the country was like Russia "though on a much smaller scale".

Amazingly enough, the Békássy-estate survives to this day as an artist residence / creative house in Zsennye.