Thomas Henry Huxley

Abstract

Thomas Henry Huxley, the seventh and youngest child of George and Rachel Huxley, was born on the 4th May 1825, at Ealing, then a village separated by stretches of open country from London.His father, who was assistant-master in a semi-public school there, is described by him as a man " rather too easy-going for this wicked world," yet with a certain tenacity of charac¬ ter which, since he inherited it, Huxley dryly says, " unfriendly observers sometimes call obstinacy."This, together with a faculty for drawing, constituted the father's legacy to the son.It is of his mother that he declares himself " physically and mentally " the child, " even down to peculiar movements of the hands "; her agile mind, with its rapid arrival at conclusions, re¬ mained, he says, the perilous but most prized part of A ' •I . .

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