Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.
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23 July 1907 London
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10 January 1997 (aged 89) Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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