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Margaret Huxley (1854–1940) was the niece of Thomas Henry Huxley, daughter of his brother William Thomas Huxley. She became a senior nurse in Dublin and is considered to be the pioneer of scientific nursing training in Ireland, after establishing nursing education in her own hospital and a few years later in a central school.
His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists. Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevenen Huxley (1889–1914), who took his own life after a period of clinical depression. [18] As a child, Huxley's nickname was "Ogie", diminutive for "Ogre". [19]
Julia and Leonard Huxley married in 1885 and had four children together: Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975), Noel Trevenen (or Trevelyan) Huxley (1889-1914), the novelist Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) and Margaret Arnold Huxley (1899-1981). [3] Julia wrote a letter to Aldous as she was dying and he carried this with him for the rest of his life.
The British Huxley family. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, author of Brave New World, grandson of Thomas Huxley; Julian Huxley (1887–1975), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley; Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous ...
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...
Aldous Huxley (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Huxley family" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Julian, his younger brother Aldous, and father Leonard. Huxley was born on 22 June 1887, at the London house of his aunt. His mother opened a school [4] in Compton, Guildford in 1902 and died in 1908, when he was 21. In 1912, his father married Rosalind Bruce ...
Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, England, on 22 November 1917.He was the youngest son of the writer and editor Leonard Huxley by Leonard Huxley's second wife Rosalind Bruce, and hence half-brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and fellow biologist Julian Huxley, and grandson of the biologist T. H. Huxley.