Leonard Huxley | |
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_in_1896.png) At a party held byMary Augusta Ward in 1896 | |
| Born | (1860-12-11)11 December 1860 London, England |
| Died | 3 May 1933(1933-05-03) (aged 72) Hampstead, London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | University College School |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
| Notable works | Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley,Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI,Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch |
| Spouse | Julia Arnold Rosalind Bruce |
| Children | Six, includingJulian Huxley,Aldous Huxley andAndrew Huxley |
Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 3 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor.
Huxley's father was the zoologistThomas Henry Huxley, commonly referred to as 'Darwin's bulldog', and his motherHenrietta Anne Heathorn.[1] He was educated atUniversity College School, London, theUniversity of St Andrews, andBalliol College, Oxford. He first marriedJulia Arnold who founded a school. She was the daughter of the academicTom Arnold. She was a sister of the novelistMrs Humphry Ward, niece of the poetMatthew Arnold, and granddaughter ofThomas Arnold, the headmaster ofRugby School (immortalised as a character inTom Brown's Schooldays).
Their four children included the biologistJulian Huxley (1887–1975) and the writerAldous Huxley (1894–1963). Their middle son, Noel Trevenen (born in 1889), committed suicide in 1914. Their daughter, Margaret Arnold Huxley, was born in 1899.Julia Arnold died of cancer in 1908.
After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915–1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember Darwin, son of the physicistCharles Galton Darwin. The younger was the 1963Nobel Prize-winning physiologistAndrew Huxley (1917–2012).
Leonard Huxley died at his home inHampstead on 3 May 1933.[2]
Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes ofLife and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes ofLife and Letters of SirJoseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also publishedThomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master atCharterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor ofCornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916, becoming its editor in 1916.
