Matthew Huxley

Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005) was a British-American epidemiologist and anthropologist, as well as an educator and author. His work ranged from promoting universal health care to establishing standards of care for nursing home patients and the mentally ill to investigating the question of what is a socially sanctionable drug.

Background

Huxley was born in London as the son of British author Aldous Huxley and his Belgian wife Maria Nys. He was educated at Dartington Hall School in Devon.

Resettling in the United States with his father in 1937, Huxley attended the Fountain Valley School of Colorado and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. He received a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. He worked for the Milbank Memorial Fund, a New York-based foundation, and from 1963 to 1983, with a brief intermission, worked at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. In 1968, he briefly served as director of seminars at the Smithsonian Institution.

In April 1950 Huxley married Ellen Hovde, a documentary filmmaker. The couple had two children, Trevenen Huxley (b. 20 October 1951) and Tessa Huxley (b. October 1953), and divorced in 1961. On 22 March 1963 he wed Judith Wallet Bordage, a freelance writer and food columnist at the Washington Post; she died in 1983. He then married Franziska Reed in 1986, who survived him.

Huxley died of cardiac shock in Reading, Pennsylvania, in February 2005 at the age of 84.

Publications

• Huxley, Matthew; Capa, Cornell (1965). Farewell to Eden. London: Chatto & Windus. OCLC 318362239.

Interdisciplinary Science reviews Vol 1 "2 The Criteria for a socially acceptable Drug

References

Huxley-Arnold family tree
Thomas Arnold 1795–1842 Mary Penrose 1791–1873 George Huxley Matthew Arnold 1822–1888 Tom Arnold 1823–1900 Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–1895 Ann Heathorn 1825–1915 Ethel Arnold 1864/5–1930 Mary Augusta Ward 1851–1920 Julia Arnold 1862–1908 Leonard Huxley 1860–1933 Rosalind Bruce 1890–1994 Jessie Huxley 1856–1927 Trevenen Huxley 1891–1914 Julian Huxley 1887–1975 Maria Nys 1899–1955 Aldous Huxley 1894–1963 Laura Archera 1911–2007 David Bruce Huxley 1915–1992 Andrew Huxley 1917–2012 Richenda Pease 1925–2003 Matthew Huxley 1920–2005
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