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A Short Biography of Thomas Henry Huxley

Author Name:

Thomas Henry Huxley

Born As:

Thomas Henry Huxley

Other Names:

Thomas Henry Huxley FRS

Born:

4 May 1825

Died:

29 Jun 1895




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Mother Rachel Withers
Father George Huxley, eight children.
Wife Ann Heathorn, eight children:

Noel Huxley - 1856-60, died aged 4.
Jessie Oriana Huxley - 1856-1927, married architect Fred Waller in 1877.
Marian Huxley - 1859-87, married artist John Collier in 1879.
Leonard Huxley, - 1860-1933 author.
Rachel Huxley - 1862-1934 married civil engineer Alfred Eckersley in 1884; he died 1895.
Henrietta - Nettie Huxley - 1863-1940, married Harold Roller, travelled Europe as a singer.
Henry Huxley - 1865-1946, became a fashionable general practitioner in London.
Ethel Huxley - 1866-1941, married artist John Collier - widower of sister in 1889.
                          
                          
Thomas Huxley used the term 'agnostic' to describe his  views on religion, a term whose use has continued to the present day, and which throws light on his demanding criteria for proof in science.

Known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution.