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A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era John Gray, New Statesman
The whole of British intellectual life seems accessible through some branch of this sprawling family tree The Guardian
In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found one of the great intellectual and scientific dynasties of their age.
The Huxley family through four generations profoundly shaped how we all see ourselves. In innumerable fields observing both nature and culture, they worked as scientists, novelists, mystics, film-makers, poets and - perhaps above all - as public lecturers, educators and explainers.
Their speciality was evolution in all its forms - at the grandest level of species, deep time, the Earth, and at the most personal and intimate. They shaped great organizations - the Natural History Museum, Imperial College, the London Zoo, UNESCO, the World Wildlife Fund - and they shaped fundamentally how we see ourselves, as individuals and as a species, one among many.
But perhaps their greatest subject was themselves. Alison Bashfords marvellously engaging and original new book interweaves the Huxleys momentous public achievements with their private triumphs and tragedies. The result is the history of a family, but also a history of humanity grappling with its place in nature. This book shows how much we owe - for better or worse - to the unceasing curiosity, self-absorption and enthusiasms of a small, strange group of men and women.
This is history with the engaging intimacy of a novel. Bashford brilliantly marries intellectual history with the story of four generations in a literary tour de force Professor Jim Secord, author of Visions of Science
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First published by Allen Lane in 2022
Copyright Alison Bashford, 2022
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Professor Julian Huxley with Jacqueline the chimp
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Keith Harvey Bashford, 19342022
Julian and Thomas Henry Huxley, Life photo shoot, 1947. Photograph by Anthony Linck/Shutterstock.
Julian Huxley, Life photo shoot, 1947. Photograph by Anthony Linck/Shutterstock.
Thomas Henry Huxley, John Collier, 1883. Oil on canvas. The National Portrait Gallery London.
Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley, 1895. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 16, Folder 3. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Thomas Henry, Leonard and Julian Huxley, 1895. The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.
Priors Field School, c. 1909. Courtesy: School Photograph album, 190218, Priors Field School Archive, PF/PHO/001.
Trevenen, Aldous and Julian Huxley, c. 1897. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 15. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Mary Augusta Ward and Aldous Huxley. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 15, Folder 5. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Julian to Trev and Aldous Huxley, 1906. Juliette Huxley Papers, 18951994, MS474, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 9, Folder 13. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Julian Huxley at Eton. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Box 8, Folder 1. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Julia and Aldous Huxley, 1898; miniature of Margaret Huxley by John Collier. Courtesy: School photograph album, 190218, Priors Field School Archive, PF/PHO/001.
Julia Huxley (ne Arnold), c. 1902. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 15, Folder 10. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
T. H. and Henrietta Huxley, 1882. Source: Thomas Henry Huxley, T. H. Huxleys Diary of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ed. Julian Huxley (London: Chatto & Windus, 1935), Plate 12, facing page 317. Copy in authors possession.
T. H. Huxleys bust by Joseph Boehm in the hall at his Eastbourne home, 1893. Courtesy: Imperial College London, Thomas Henry Huxley Collection, Series 15, Box 80 (7).
Thomas Henry Huxley, by Marian Collier (ne Huxley), c. 1880. Pencil. The National Portrait Gallery London.
Etching by Leopold Flameng of John Collier, Charles Darwin, 1883, signed by both artists. By kind permission of Angela Darwin. Photograph Andrew Smart of A. C. Cooper Ltd.
Etching by Leopold Flameng of John Collier, Thomas Henry Huxley, 1885, signed by both artists. By kind permission of Angela Darwin. Photograph Andrew Smart of A. C. Cooper Ltd.
Thomas Henry Huxley, marble, Edward Onslow Ford, 1900. Photograph inscribed by Ford to Henrietta Huxley. Courtesy: Imperial College London, Thomas Henry Huxley Collection, Series 15, Box 80.
Charles Darwin, marble, Joseph Boehm, 1885. Mark Williamson / The Science Photo Library.
The Royal Society, a portrait group of the most distinguished fellows, 1889. Science Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo.
Julian Huxley, experimenting at an Oxford laboratory, c. 1921. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Box 13, Folder 4. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Julian Huxley the science communicator, 1920. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 12, Folder 1. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Julian Huxley giving his convocation address from the pulpit, the Darwin Centennial commemoration, Chicago, 26 November 1959. Darwin Centennial Celebration Records, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Viola Ilma, 1934. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 37, Folder 13. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
Juliette Huxley, Bassano Ltd. Whole-plate film negative, 19 September 1934. The National Portrait Gallery London.
Julian and Juliette Huxley, by Wolfgang Suschitzky, 1939. Julian and Juliette Huxley Papers, 18991988, MS512, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 14, Folder 1. By kind permission of the Estate of Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Marian Collier (ne Huxley), by John Collier, 18823. Oil on canvas. The National Portrait Gallery London.
Sketch of Rachel Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtesy: Imperial College London, Thomas Henry Huxley Collection, Series 3, Box 31:152.
Julian and Aldous Huxley, by Wolfgang Suschitzky, 1958. By kind permission, the Estate of Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Becalmed Near the Line Hands to Bathe. Watercolour from Voyage of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 18461849, by Owen Stanley. Courtesy: The Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
Physalia, from Thomas Henry Huxley, The Oceanic Hydrozoa (London: The Ray Society, 1859), from Plate 12. Copy in authors possession.
Julian Huxleys fieldnotes on the grebe, 1911. Julian Sorell Huxley Papers, 18991980, MS 50, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 56, Folder 2. By kind permission of Victoria Huxley and Susan Ray.
H. G. Wells posing as his teacher T. H. Huxley at the Royal School of Mines, 1880s. Alpha Historica / Alamy Stock Photo.
The Key to the Knowledge of Life, watercolour by W. S. Bagdatopoulos, in H. G. Wells, Julian Sorell Huxley and G. P. Wells, The Science of Life, vol. I (London: Waverley, 1931), 976. Copy in authors possession.
The Courtship of the Great Crested Grebe, watercolour by Gilbert Spencer, in H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells,
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