English writer, journalist, magistrate, environmentalist and adviser
Elspeth Huxley
CBE
Born
Elspeth Grant (1907-07-23)23 July 1907 London[1]
Died
10 January 1997(1997-01-10) (aged 89) Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation
Author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser
Nationality
British
Alma mater
Reading University, Cornell University
Subject
Settler life in British Kenya
Notable works
The Flame Trees of Thika, The Mottled Lizard
Spouse
Gervas Huxley
Relatives
Huxley family
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997)[1] was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser.[2] 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 Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.[3]
^ abFitzgerald, Mary Anne (13 January 1997). "Obituary: Elspeth Huxley". The Independent. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
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