Collier painted numerous portraits of members of the family.





Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, educator, and advocate of agnosticism (he coined the word).






His grandfather, named Thomas Henry Huxley, was a naturalist known as \"Darwin's Bulldog.\" His father, named Leonard Huxley, was a writer.







The patriarch of the family was the zoologist and comparative anatomist In 1855, he married Henrietta Anne Heathorn (1825–1915), an English émigrée whom he had met in Collier's views on religion and ethics are interesting for their comparison with the views of Thomas Henry Huxley and Julian Huxley, both of whom gave Collier and his first wife Marian (Mady) had one child, Joyce, a portrait miniaturist. They had two children, and both became scientists: Aldous married twice, to Maria Nys (1919), and after her death, to In 1947 he married Jocelyn Richenda Gammell Pease (1925–2003), the daughter of the geneticist Jessie, the eldest daughter of T.H.
His friends were really alarmed, and his doctor ordered three months rest. His mother, named Julia Arnold, was related to poet Matthew Arnold.





The elder of these was A Plaque was erected in 1995 at the house in Bracknell Gardens, HampsteadJulian married Juliette Baillot in 1919.





Leonard and Julia had four children, including the biologist After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce (1890–1994), and had two further sons.



Darwin picked up his pen, and with Tyndall's help raised £2,100 for him — an enormous sum.

He began teaching natural history and Huxley to eldest sister Lizzie 1853 Huxley Papers at Imperial College 31.21Proceedings of the 4th Annual Aldous Huxley Symposium, Huntington Library, 2008Laura Archera Huxley Memorial, Philosophical Research Society, Los Feliz, 2008Proceedings of the 4th Annual Aldous Huxley Symposium, Huntington Library, 2008Laura Archera Huxley Memorial, Philosophical Research Society, Los Feliz, 2008

His success at the After four increasingly difficult years, Huxley’s professional fortunes improved in 1854.

Although Huxley received only two years (1833–35) of formal On a free scholarship (1842–45) to Charing Cross Hospital, London, Huxley won medals in To repay his debts, he entered the navy and served (1846–50) as assistant surgeon on HMS A whirlwind romance in Sydney in 1847 left the sailor engaged to a brewer’s daughter, Henrietta (“Nettie”) Anne Heathorn. He was a member of eight Royal Commissions and two other commissions. Huxley, survived Rachel Huxley, the fifth of T.H. Thomas Henry Huxley and Henrietta Anne Heathorn.





Huxley was a vocal supporter of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary naturalism, and his organizational efforts, public lectures, and writing helped elevate the place of science in modern society.

They had two children, Rupert Crawshay-Williams and Gillian.

He was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, and opposed those Christian leaders who tried to stifle scientific debate.

Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist. This tribute appeared on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writers’ Almanac.” Today is the birthday of English author Aldous Huxley (books by this author), born in Godalming, Surrey (1894).







Huxley's father became "sunk in worse than childish imbecility of mind",His favourite daughter, the artistically talented Mady (Marion), who became the first wife of artist About T.H.

The money was partly to pay for his recuperation, and partly to pay his bills.