He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair (later known by the pen name George Orwell) was among his pupils, but was remembered by another as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn’t keep discipline. He was able to take all knowledge for his province." įollowing his education at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living. For one thing, it put paid to his idea of taking up medicine as a career.His uniqueness lay in his universalism. "I belive his blindness was a blessing in disguise. He graduated in 1916 with first class honours. Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford. Aldous's near-blindness disqualified him from service in World War I. Three years later he suffered an illness (keratitis punctata) which "left practically blind for two to three years". Huxley's mother died in 1908, when he was fourteen. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College. His teacher was his mother who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. Huxley began his learning in his father's well-equipped botanical laboratory, then continued in a school named Hillside. His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists. Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist ("Darwin's Bulldog"). Julia was the niece of Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. He was the third son of the writer and school-master Leonard Huxley and first wife, Julia Arnold who founded Prior's Field School. Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England in 1894.
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