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His father was the Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley . He was educated at University College School , London, St. Andrews University , and Balliol College, Oxford . He married firstly Julia Arnold, daughter of Tom Arnold and a sister of the Novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward , niece of the Poet Matthew Arnold , and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold , the headmaster of Rugby School who was immortalised as a character in the Novel '' Tom Brown's Schooldays ''. The four children included the Biologist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1894) and the Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley (born 1897). His wife died of cancer in 1908 and in the same month did his daughter Margaret (born 1899) passed away. Another son, Trevenen (born in 1889) committed suicide in 1914. After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce (said to be related in some way to Robert The Bruce ), and had two further sons. The younger of these was the Physiologist Andrew Fielding Huxley . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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