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Mary Swainson in later life
Black and white photograph of Mary Swainson captioned 'Listening at a counselling session'.
Mary Swainson in her early 40s
Black and white photograph of Mary Swainson with the caption, 'Doing play therapy at Leicester School Psychological Service - in my early forties'
Mary Swainson aged 16
Photograph of Mary Swainson with the caption 'Myself at sixteen - the introvert period of adolescence'.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895)
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS Hon FRSE FLS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He is known as ‘Darwin's Bulldog’ for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Leonard Huxley (1860 – 1933)
Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 2 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor.
His father was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, commonly referred to as 'Darwin's bulldog'.
Leonard first married Julia Arnold, who founded a…
His father was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, commonly referred to as 'Darwin's bulldog'.
Leonard first married Julia Arnold, who founded a…
Thomas Fielding Johnson (1828 – 1921); Agnes Mabel Bruce, née Fielding Johnson (1864 – 1943); Leonard Huxley (1860 – 1933); Rosalind Huxley, née Bruce (1890 – 1994), with baby David Bruce Huxley (1915 – 1992); and Agnes Fielding Johnson, née Paget (1840 – 1917), probably taken 1915 or 1916.
No doubt other visitors at ‘Brookfield’ [the family home] included members of the Huxley family, as Mrs Bruce’s daughter, Rosalind, was married to Leonard Huxley, father of the evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley and writer and philosopher Aldous…
William Wallace Bruce (1846 – 1907)
One of their daughters was Rosalind Bruce:
‘After the death of his first wife, Leonard Huxley married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915 – 1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember…
‘After the death of his first wife, Leonard Huxley married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915 – 1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember…
Agnes Mabel Fielding Johnson (1864 – 1942)
One of their daughters was Rosalind Bruce:
‘After the death of his first wife, Leonard Huxley married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915 – 1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember…
‘After the death of his first wife, Leonard Huxley married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915 – 1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember…
Photograph of brass commemorative plate to Thomas Fielding Johnson in the entrance to the Fielding Johnson Building.
Thomas Fielding Johnson intended that the site would provide accommodation not just for the new university college, but both Wyggeston schools (Boys’ and Girls’):
‘This land, which adjoins the Victoria Park from North to South, will provide ample…
‘This land, which adjoins the Victoria Park from North to South, will provide ample…
Agnes Fielding Johnson, née Paget.
By 1903, their daughter Agnes Mabel Fielding Johnson (1864 – 1942), married to William Wallace Bruce (1846 – 1907) in 1885 at the Unitarian Chapel in East Bond Street, Leicester, had six children (one having sadly died in infancy).
The Bruce…
The Bruce…