Professor Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895) was a biologist. Born in Ealing, his father was a mathematics teacher at Ealing School until it closed, putting the family into financial difficulties. As a result, Thomas left school at age 10, after only two years of formal schooling. Huxley resigned from the navy in 1854 and became Professor of Natural History at the Royal School of Mines and naturalist to the British Geological Survey in the following year. Wikipedia page [1] refers. The BBC page is [2].