George Keen (1794–1884)

English-born sheep farmer in Argentina and Uruguay. Arrived in Argentina in 1818. Married Mary Yates (1802/3–72) in 1821. Owned, among other properties, Estancia La Virgen de los Dolores, at Mercedes on the Rio Negro, Uruguay, visited by CD in 1833.

Sources

‘Beagle’ diary

Hanon 2005

Macdonell 1913, pp. 22, 27