Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones (14 March 1908 – 10 December 1968) was a British sculptor known for creating several public works for British towns and cities.

Biography

Huxley-Jones was born at Staffordshire and studied at the Wolverhampton School of Art from 1924 to 1929 and then, until 1933, at the

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in London where his tutors included both

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and

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. After graduating, Huxley-Jones held the post of head of sculpture at

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in Aberdeen. Working in bronze, ivory and terracotta, Huxley-Jones exhibited statuettes and reliefs at the

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, at the

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, at the

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, with the

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and the

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. Huxley-Jones received a large number of public commissions for his sculptures, which were often elegant compositions with a smooth surface and a simple profile. These public works include the statue of

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in London and the 1963 '' Joy of Life Fountain'' in London's

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, He also created ''Mother and Child'' for

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's Central Park Memorial Gardens which won an award from the

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in 1966 and was renovated in 2009. Huxley-Jones was married to the artist Gwynneth Holt and lived at Chelmsford in Essex and died at near there, at Broomfield. Aberdeen and Wolverhampton art galleries hold examples of his work. Letters to Huxley-Jones from the architect

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are preserved at the

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Selected publications

*''Modelled portrait heads''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huxley-Jones, T.B. 1908 births 1968 deaths 20th-century British sculptors 20th-century English male artists Academics of Robert Gordon University Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton Alumni of the Royal College of Art English male sculptors People from Staffordshire