Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
33, 37-8
Thomas Henry Huxley
Standard Name: Huxley, Thomas Henry
Used Form: T. H. Huxley
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Evelyn Sharp | |
| Education | H. G. Wells | Having initially left school at thirteen, HGW
later attended the Normal School
which later became the Royal College of Science. His most important teacher and inspiration was Thomas Huxley
. He failed his final exams... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party
and NAC
, was a devoted socialist like KBG
, an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | AH
's paternal grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley
, was a famous biologist who died just a year after his grandson's birth. When he was six Aldous attended, with his entire family, the unveiling of a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Grey | The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist Mary Somerville
, geologist Sir Charles Lyell
, and Sir William Grove
, inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among... |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
| Literary responses | George Henry Lewes | A hostile notice by T. H. Huxley
in the Westminster Review (owned by John Chapman
) dismissed Lewes as an amateur and ranked his book below Harriet Martineau
's recent abridgement of Comte. George Eliot |
| politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart
, Thomas Henry Huxley
, Dr... |
| politics | Emily Davies | ED
's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning
, George Grote
, Thomas Huxley
,... |
| politics | Emily Faithfull | EF
reluctantly declined to stand for the London School Board
, following the resignation of T. H. Huxley
, because of her commitments to other activities. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 284 |
| Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson
, Arnold
, Robert Browning
, Margaret Oliphant
, T. H. Huxley
, and James Russell Lowell
was formed to devise a memorial to DMC
in Tewkesbury... |
Timeline
4 May 1825: The writer Thomas Henry Huxley was born in...
Writing climate item
4 May 1825
The writer Thomas Henry Huxley
was born in Ealing.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Desmond, Adrian. Huxley: The Devil’s Disciple. Michael Joseph, 1994.
4
1851: The first nationally funded institutions...
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1851
The first nationally funded institutions for scientific education, the School of Mines
and the Museum of Practical Geology
, were established.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
399-400
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
166
1856: Richard Owen, a rival of Darwin and Huxley,...
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1856
Richard Owen
, a rival of Darwin
and Huxley
, was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
100
: Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary...
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Spring 1859
Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary arguments for human antiquity appeared, scant months before Darwin
's Origin of Species was published.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
182
During the 1860s: Henry Maudsley read works by T. H. Huxley...
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During the 1860s
Henry Maudsley
read works by T. H. Huxley
which affected his theories of psychology.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
17
30 June 1860: T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce...
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30 June 1860
T. H. Huxley
and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
clashed over evolution at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
at Oxford.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
330
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
124-5
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 June 2011
January 1863: Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist, educator,...
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January 1863
Thomas Henry Huxley
, scientist, educator, and public administrator, published Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man’s Place in Nature. University of Michigan Press, 1959.
1
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...
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1864-1867
The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
163
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
163
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
National or international item
7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
264-5
1869: T. H. Huxley coined the word agnostic....
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1869
T. H. Huxley
coined the word agnostic.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
126
1872: T. H. Huxley and other members of the Physics,...
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1872
T. H. Huxley
and other members of the Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History departments of the School of Mines
split from the School and relocated in new buildings in South Kensington.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
400, 408
1872-1876: The HMS Challenger, under the scientific...
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1872-1876
The HMS Challenger, under the scientific direction of Charles Wyville Thomson
, sailed around the world in order to sound and dredge in three great ocean basins, to collect all possible flora and fauna at...
24 May 1875: In the wake of proposed legislation both...
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24 May 1875
In the wake of proposed legislation both by antivivisectionists and by scientists in favour of animal experiments, Home Secretary Richard Cross
announced a Royal Commission on animal vivisection.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
96
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
91
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
79-80, 91-7, 107-8
1876: T. H. Huxley praised the new term biology...
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1876
T. H. Huxley
praised the new term biology as an improvement over the former term, Natural History, which he called old . . .[and] confusing because it conveyed so many meanings.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
14
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
14
1 October 1880: Mason College or Mason Science College in...
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1 October 1880
Mason College
or Mason Science College in Birmingham, founded at a cost of more than £200,000 by Sir Josiah Mason
, who had made his fortune out of nibs for pens, opened its doors...
Texts
Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man’s Place in Nature. University of Michigan Press, 1959.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley. Editor Barr, Alan P., University of Georgia Press, 1997.