page_title: Huxley family
section_title: Sir Julian Huxley
hierarchical_section_title: Huxley family / Leonard Huxley and issue / Sir Julian Huxley
caption_attribution_description: Julian Huxley
context_page_description: The Huxley family is a British family; several of its members have excelled in science, medicine, arts and literature. The family also includes members who occupied senior positions in the public service of the United Kingdom.
  The patriarch of the family was the zoologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley. His grandsons include Aldous Huxley and his brother Julian Huxley and the Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley.
context_section_description: Julian Huxley (1887–1975) was the first Director-General of UNESCO. He was Secretary of Zoological Society, co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund, and president of the British Eugenics Society. He won the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society, the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society, the Kalinga Prize and the Lasker Award. He presided over the founding conference for the International Humanist and Ethical Union. He wrote fifty books, including "The Science of Life", co-authored with H. G. Wells and Wells's son, G. P. Wells.
  Julian was important as a proponent of natural selection at a time when Darwin's idea was denigrated by many. His master-work Evolution: The Modern Synthesis gave the name to a mid-century movement which united biological theory and overcame problems caused by over-specialisation.
  Julian married Juliette Baillot in 1919. They had two children, and both became scientists: Anthony Julian Huxley, a botanist and horticulturalist, and Francis Huxley, an anthropologist.
  A Wetherspoon Public house in Selsdon was named after him as he was one of the main backers of the Selsdon Wood Nature Reserve.
caption: Julian Huxley when Fellow of New College, Oxford 1922.
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