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See Harrod : Life of Keynes, p.31-32. "Best friend of all was Bernard Swithinbank. Tall and handsome... He was an elegant, even exquisite, schoolboy... To Maynard's boyish enthusiasm he seemed a veritable king of men... Throughout his life the claims of friendship came first with Maynard..."
See Skidelsky : John Maynard Keynes Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920, p.103-104."Swithinbank, the son of an Anglican clergyman... in his last year (at Eton) was Maynard's best friend...Swithinbank, a fine classicist, was good looking, poetic, tender, vulnerable, unworldly : a combination which Maynard always found appealing. He regarded him as a delicate work of art, to be worshipped and protected against breakage."

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