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Thomas Henry Huxley

English biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)

"Thomas Huxley" redirects here. For the Lieutenant-Colonel, see Thomas Huxley (British Army officer).

The Right Honourable Thomas Henry Huxley FRS FLS HonFRSE
Woodburytype print of Huxley (1880 or earlier)
Born	(1825-05-04)4 May 1825 Ealing, London, England
Died	29 June 1895(1895-06-29) (aged 70) Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Education
Known for	Evolution, science education, agnosticism
Awards
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology; comparative anatomy
Institutions	Royal Navy, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal School of Mines, Royal InstitutionUniversity of London
Academic advisors	Thomas Wharton Jones
Notable students

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.^[2]

The stories regarding Huxley's famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate

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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among scientists and the public alike. As is evident from the letter quoted above, Huxley was a passionate defender of Darwin's theory -- so passionate that he has been called "Darwin's Bulldog". But Huxley was not only the bulldog for Darwin's theory, but was a great biologist in his own right, who did original research in zoology and paleontology. Nor did he slavishly and uncritically swallow Darwin's theory; he criticized several aspects of it, pointing out a number of problems.

Biography of Huxley

He was born on May 4, 1825, in Ealing, near London, the seventh of eight children in a family that was none too affluent. Huxley's only childhood education was two years at Ealing school, where his father taught mathematics; this ended in 1835 when the family moved to Coventry. Despite his lack of formal education, young Huxley read voraciously in science, history, and philosophy, and tau

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Thomas Huxley

by Doug Linder (2004)

What paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called “the most famous story in all the hagiography of evolution” involved the person who also become the most important disciple of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, Thomas Henry Huxley. The occasion was the June 30, 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, an event highlighted by the first prominent debate over the controversial new theory proposed the previous year by Darwin and Wallace. Seven hundred people jammed into the glass-roofed long west room at ’s , enticed by the prospect of hearing “Soapy Sam” Wilberforce, the influential and eloquent bishop of , present his attack on evolution.

As Gould observes in an essay in Bully for Brontosaurus, the story of Wilberforce’s speech and Huxley’s rejoinder “has been enshrined among the half-dozen greatest legends of science,” ranking up there with Archimedes “jumping from his bath and shouting ‘Eureka’ through the streets&