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Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Great Britain. His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped to develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and the real- life headmaster of Rugby School who became a character in the novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays". | |||
