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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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Thomas Fielding Johnson to W. J. Lovell, Mayor of Leicester, 4 April 1919
Printed letter from Thomas Fielding Johnson to W. J. Lovell, Mayor of Leicester, 4 April 1919.
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…
Thomas Fielding Johnson
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).
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The Ripple, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1
Photograph of the front page of the first ever issue of The Ripple.
The Ripple, 26 March 1957
Photograph of the front page of The Ripple, 26 March 1957
The Ripple, 'Grand Christmas Edition', 1952
Photograph of the front page of the Christmas 1952 issue of The Ripple.
