Huxley family
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The Huxley family is a British family, consisting of several notables in several fields.
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[edit] Thomas Henry Huxley
Lived from 1825 - 1895, married Anne Heathorn (1825-1915): an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He is also a noted figure in agnosticism and is credited with coining the term "agnostic."
[edit] Leonard Huxley
(1860 - 1933)
He married firstly Julia Arnold, a sister of the novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward, niece of the poet Matthew Arnold, and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School who was immortalised as a character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays. Their four children included the biologist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley and the writer Aldous Leonard Huxley. In his own right Leonard wrote editions of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley.
After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce (said to be related in some way to Robert the Bruce), and had two further sons. The younger of these was the physiologist Andrew Fielding Huxley.
[edit] Julian Huxley
(1887 - 1975): Biologist who won the Kalinga Prize. He also presided over the founding conference for the International Humanist and Ethical Union and was the first director-general for UNESCO. He also wrote, including The Science of Life series edited by H. G. Wells. (Wells had studied under T. H. Huxley)
[edit] Aldous Huxley
(1894 - 1963): Julian's brother who wrote Brave New World, which began as a parody of Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells. He also wrote The Doors of Perception, which inspired the name of the band The Doors and was an early example of Psychedelic literature. He was associated with Vedanta.
[edit] Andrew Huxley
(born 1917): A winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studies of the central nervous system. He married Jocelyn Richenda Pease, distantly related to the Pease Family.
