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Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist (" Darwin's Bulldog ").

His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists.

Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.