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Huxley Family
The Huxley family is an England, English family; several of its members have excelled in science, medicine, arts and literature. The family also includes members who occupied senior positions in the public service of the United Kingdom. The patriarch of the family was the zoologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). His grandsons include: * Aldous Huxley, author of ''Brave New World'' and ''The Doors of Perception''; * his brother Julian Huxley, an evolutionary biologist and the first director of UNESCO; * the Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley. Family tree Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Mostly a self-educated man, he had an extraordinary influence on the British educated public. He was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, and opposed those Christian leaders who tried to sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Collier (painter)
Marian "Mady" Collier (née Marian Huxley; 1859–1887) also spelled as Marion Huxley, was a British 19th-century painter and is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Biography Marian Huxley was born in 1859 in London, to father Thomas Henry Huxley and mother Henrietta Anne Heathorn. She had seven siblings, including her brother Leonard Huxley. She studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her work was shown at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Grosvenor Gallery. On 30 June 1879 Huxley married the British writer and portrait painter, John Collier, also a Slade graduate. Together they had a daughter named Joyce, their only child in 1884. After the birth of Joyce, Huxley suffered from "nervous hysteria" (possibly postpartum depression) and in November 1887 she was taken to Paris for treatment with Jean-Martin Charcot, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in December 1887. She had erratic behavior and possibly mental illness, which appeared to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a Common descent, common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept. In a joint presentation with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this Phylogenetics, branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history and was honoured by Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey, burial in Westminster Abbey. Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh Medical Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin Charles Cervantes Tickell (25 August 1930 – 25 January 2022) was a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic. Background Tickell was born in London, the son of writer Jerrard Tickell and Renée (née Haynes), a great-granddaughter of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Westminster School where he was a King's Scholar, and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Modern History.Crispin Tickell online CV Accessed 14 April 2007. He did his national service in the as a 2nd Lieutenant from 1952 to 1954. Diplomatic career Tickell joined the British diplomatic servic ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerrard Tickell
Edward Jerrard Tickell (14 February 1905 – 27 March 1966) was an Irish writer, known for his novels and historical books on the Second World War. Biography Jerrard Tickell was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and, from 1919 until 1922 at Highgate School in London. He joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1940 and was commissioned in 1941, when he was appointed to the War Office. Between 1943 and 1945 his official duties took him to Africa, the Middle East, Washington DC, Canada, the West Indies and Europe. He was appointed to the General Staff in 1945. He was married to the author and psychical researcher Renée Haynes, the daughter of the eminent English social moralist E. S. P. Haynes and Oriana Huxley Waller (a granddaughter of Thomas Henry Huxley) and they had three sons: Crispin, Patrick, and Tom. Tickell wrote 21 novels, including the bestselling '' Appointment with Venus'' (1951), which was made into a film of the same name starring David Niven and a 1962 Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Haynes
Renée Haynes (23 July 1906 – 12 October 1992) was an English writer, historian, and psychical researcher. She was the author of an influential novel about her experience of Oxford University during the 1920s, and later coined the parapsychology term "boggle-threshold", to indicate the point at which tolerance of a claim turns to disbelief. Personal life Renée Oriana Haynes was born in London on 23 July 1906, the eldest daughter of lawyer and writer E. S. P. Haynes. Her mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Henry Huxley. Growing up, her parents' friends included Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc (whose biography Haynes would write in 1953). Haynes was educated at private schools, including an experimental day-school run by Theosophists. She then studied law and history at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, graduating in 1927. While there, Haynes was editor of the college's magazine, ''The Fritillary.'' ''The Times'' sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Huxley
Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005) was a British-American epidemiologist and anthropologist, as well as an educator and author. His work ranged from promoting universal health care to establishing standards of care for nursing home patients and the mentally ill to investigating the question of what is a socially sanctionable drug. Background Huxley was born in London as the son of British author Aldous Huxley and his Belgian wife Maria Nys. He was educated at Dartington Hall School in Devon. Resettling in the United States with his father in 1937, Huxley attended the Fountain Valley School of Colorado and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. He received a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. He worked for the Milbank Memorial Fund, a New York-based foundation, and from 1963 to 1983, with a brief intermission, worked at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. In 1968, he briefly served as director of semin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Huxley
Francis John Heathorn Huxley (28 August 1923 – 29 October 2016) was a British zoologist, anthropologist and author. With a short professional career at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, he is most well known for his several anthropological expeditions to Gambia, Amazon, and Haiti, among other places, from which he wrote several notable books. Early life and education Huxley was the younger son of Julian Huxley and Juliette (''née'' Baillot). His brother Anthony became a botanist and scientific author. Born at the time when his father was a Fellow at New College, Oxford, and a Senior Demonstrator of zoology, he grew up in Oxford. As his father moved to King's College London, in 1925, to become professor of zoology, he spent the rest of his childhood in London. At age two, he entered a preparatory school at Byron House, but soon developed severe illnesses, including Bell’s palsy, whooping cough and eye infections. in 1933, he started elementary education at Frensham Height ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Huxley
Anthony Julian Huxley (2 December 1920 – 26 December 1992) was a British botanist and writer. An elected council member of the Royal Horticultural Society, he became its vice president in 1991. He edited '' Amateur Gardening'' from 1967 to 1971, and ''Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening'' from 1988 to 1992. Biography Huxley was the elder son of Julian Huxley and Juliette (''née'' Baillot). His brother Francis became an anthropologist. Born at the time when his father was a Fellow at New College, Oxford, and a Senior Demonstrator of zoology, he grew up in Oxford. As his father became professor of zoology at King's College London, in 1925, he spent the rest of his childhood in London. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduation, he worked in the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Aircraft Production for 10 years as a flight technician ( boffin). After a brief service in the British Overseas Airways Corporation, he work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Collier
Sir Laurence Collier KCMG (1890–1976) was the British ambassador to Norway between 1939 and 1950, including the period when Norway's government was in exile in London during the Second World War. Biography Laurence Collier was the son of the artist John Collier and his second wife Ethel Huxley, the daughter of Thomas Huxley. His paternal grandfather was Robert Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell. He was born on 13 June 1890, at 4 Marlborough Place, Marylebone, London; and educated at Bedales School in Hampshire, and Balliol College, Oxford. He married Eleanor Watson on 31 May 1917 at St. Paul's Church, Hampstead; they had one son, William, b. 26 Nov 1919. His diplomatic career included postings in Tokyo 1919–21 before returning to the Foreign Office in London, where he was Head of the Northern section, monitoring German actions towards Scandinavia. In 1940, he advised the UK Government that they should intervene against the German invasion of Norway. Collier served as British Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' and ''The Mottled Lizard'', based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Early life and education Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers in colonial Kenya. Elspeth, aged six, arrived in December 1913, complete with governess and maid. Her upbringing was unconventional; she was "almost treated as a parcel, being passed from hand to hand". Huxley's 1959 book ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. It was adapted into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
