Anthony Huxley

Anthony Julian Huxley (2 December 1920 – 26 December 1992) was a British botanist and writer. An elected council member of the Royal Horticultural Society, he became its vice president in 1991. He edited Amateur Gardening from 1967 to 1971, and Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening from 1988 to 1992. Born at the time when his father was a Fellow at New College, Oxford, and a Senior Demonstrator of zoology, he grew up in Oxford. As his father became professor of zoology at King's College London, in 1925, he spent the rest of his childhood in London. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduation, he worked in the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Aircraft Production for 10 years as a flight technician (boffin). After a brief service in the British Overseas Airways Corporation, he worked with the weekly magazine Amateur Gardening.