Leonard Huxley (writer)
Leonard Huxley(11 December 1860 – 2 May 1933) was anEnglishschoolteacher,writerandeditor.
Biography
Family
His father was the zoologistThomas Henry Huxley,'Darwin's bulldog'. Leonard was educated atUniversity College School,London,St. Andrews University,andBalliol College, Oxford.He first married Julia Arnold, daughter ofTom Arnold.She was a sister of the novelistMrs. Humphrey Ward,niece of the poetMatthew Arnold,and granddaughter ofThomas Arnold,the headmaster ofRugby School(immortalised as a character inTom Brown's Schooldays).
Their four children included the biologistJulian Huxley(1887–1975) and the writerAldous Huxley(1894–1963). Their middle son, Noel Trevenen (born in 1889), committed suicide in 1914. Their daughter, Margaret Arnold Huxley, was born in 1899 and died on 11 October 1981. Julia Arnold died of cancer in 1908.
After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915–1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember Darwin, son of the physicistCharles Galton Darwin.The younger was the 1963Nobel Prize-winning physiologistAndrew Huxley(1917–2012).
Work
Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes ofLife and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxleyand the two volumes ofLife and Letters of SirJoseph Dalton HookerOM GCSI.He also publishedThomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch,and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master atCharterhouse Schoolbetween 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor ofCornhill Magazinebetween 1901 and 1916, becoming its editor in 1916.
- 1900Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley.2 vols.
- 1912Thoughts on education drawn from the writings of Matthew Arnold(editor).
- 1913Scott's last expedition(editor). 2 vols.
- 1918Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton HookerOM, GCSI. 2 vols.
- 1920Anniversaries, and other poems.
- 1920Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch.
- 1920Charles Darwin.
- 1924Jane Welsh Carlyle: letters to her family 1839-1863(editor).
- 1926Progress and the unfit.
- 1926Sheaves from the Cornhill.
- 1930Elizabeth Barrett Browning: letters to her sister 1846-1859(editor).