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The Huxley family is a British 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).
Aldous Huxley. Writer: A Woman's Vengeance. Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third of four children. His brother Julian Huxley was a biologist known for his theories of evolution. His grandfather, named Thomas Henry Huxley, was a naturalist known as "Darwin's Bulldog." His father, named Leonard Huxley, was a writer. His ...
- July 26, 1894
- November 22, 1963
Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, on 26 July 1894. [ 14 ][ 15 ] He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited The Cornhill Magazine, [ 16 ] and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894–1963), writer, was born at Laleham, a house near Godalming, Surrey, on 26 July 1894, the third son of Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), an assistant master at Charterhouse School and subsequently editor of the Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife, Julia Frances Huxley (née Arnold) (1862–1908) [see under Huxley, Leonard], an educator and daughter of the literary ...
Sep 11, 2024 · 8 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Around Christmas Eve 1955, Alfred Matthew Hubbard turned Aldous Huxley on to LSD. Their meeting took place at Huxley’s home in the Hollywood Hills. Seemingly from different universes, these two figures found a curious point of convergence via lysergic acid diethylamide ...
Sep 13, 2024 · Aldous Huxley (born July 26, 1894, Godalming, Surrey, England—died November 22, 1963, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an English novelist and critic gifted with an acute and far-ranging intelligence whose works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire. He remains best known for one novel, Brave New World (1932), a model for much ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Aldous Huxley died on the same day as fellow author C. S. Lewis and President John F. Kennedy. Death Year: 1963 Death date: November 22, 1963
