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      • At 18 he won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School (later the Royal College) of Science, in South Kensington, London, where T.H. Huxley was one of his teachers.
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  2. May 28, 2024 · At age 18, H.G. Wells won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied under T.H. Huxley. He graduated from London University in 1888 and became a science teacher.

  3. Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 162 High Street in Bromley, Kent, on 21 September 1866. Called "Bertie" by his family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells , a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer and Sarah Neal, a former domestic servant .

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · He won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science where he learned about physics, chemistry, astronomy and biology, among other subjects. Wells also devoted much of his time to becoming a...

  5. When Wells was 18 years old he won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School (later the Royal College) of Science in London, England. He graduated from London University in 1888 and became a science teacher, but he soon turned to writing.

  6. Sep 7, 2016 · A scholarship propelled him to what is now Imperial College London, where he studied biology under champion of Darwinism T. H. Huxley, graduating in 1890.

    • Simon J. James
    • s.j.james@durham.ac.uk
    • 2016
  7. In 1884 he enrolled in the Normal School of Science in South Kensington, where he studied biology under the famous Thomas Henry Huxley, who has sometimes been called “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his...

  8. Herbert George Wells studied Biology at the Royal College of Science (RCS) from 1884 to 1887. Although he failed his final Portrait of H.G Wells from album by Edward Cahen, Royal College of Science, 1900-1906, Archives Imperial College.