Leonard Huxley

1860 - 1933  (72 years)    Has 4 ancestors and 18 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Leonard Huxley
  Birth	11 Dec 1860
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 May 1933
  Siblings	7 Siblings
  1. Noel Huxley ( Huxley,   b. 1856   d. 1860  (Age 4 years)   2. Jessie Oriana Huxley,   b. 1856   d. 1927  (Age 71 years) ▻ Fred Waller,  m. 1877   3. Marian Huxley,   b. 1859   d. 1887  (Age 28 years) ▻ John Collier,  m. 1879 + 4. Leonard Huxley,   b. 11 Dec 1860   d. 2 May 1933  (Age 72 years) ▻ Julia Arnold;   Rosalind Bruce   5. Rachel Huxley,   b. 1862   d. 1934  (Age 72 years) ▻ Alfred Eckersley,  m. 1884   6. Henrietta Huxley,   b. 1863   d. 1940  (Age 77 years) ▻ Harold Roller   7. Henry Huxley,   b. 1865   d. 1946  (Age 81 years)   8. Ethel Huxley,   b. 1866   d. 1941  (Age 75 years) ▻ John Collier,  m. 1889
  Person ID	I514528	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Thomas Henry Huxley,   b. 4 May 1825, Ealing, London, Middlesex, England d. 29 June 1895)
  Mother	Anne Heathorn,   b. 1825   d. 1915 (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	1855
  Family ID	F272182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Julia Arnold   d. 1908
  Children	+ 1. Julian Huxley,   b. 22 Jun 1887   d. 14 Feb 1975 (Age 87 years)   2. Noel Trevenen Huxley,   b. 1889   d. 1914 (Age 25 years)   3. Maria Huxley   d. 1955 + 4. Aldous Leonard Huxley,   b. 26 Jul 1894, Godalming, Surrey, England d. 22 Nov 1963 (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F272181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2009

  
  

  Family 2	Rosalind Bruce   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. David Bruce Huxley,   b. 1915   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Prof. Andrew Fielding Huxley,   b. 22 Nov 1917, Hampstead, London d. 30 May 2012 (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F272183	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2009

  
  

• Notes

  writer and editor educated at University College School , London, St. Andrews University , and Balliol College, Oxford . He first married After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (born 1915), whose daughter Angela married George Pember Darwin, son of the physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin . The younger was Nobel Prizewinning physiologist Andrew Fielding Huxley (born 1917). Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916, becoming its editor in 1916. 1900 Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. 2 vols. 1912 Thoughts on education drawn from the writings of Matthew Arnold (editor). 1913 Scott's last expedition (editor). 2 vols. 1918 Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI. 2 vols. 1920 Anniversaries, and other poems. 1920 Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch. 1920 Charles Darwin. 1926 Progress and the unfit. 1926 Sheaves from the Cornhill. 1929 Jane Welsh Carlyle: letters to her family 1839-1863 (editor). 1930 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: letters to her sister 1846-1859 (editor).