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Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, on 26th July 1894.

He was educated for a time by his mother and then entered Oxford University and obtained a degree in English Literature.

As a young man he contracted the eye disease keratitis punctate, that left him, to all intents, blind for almost three years until partial sight was restored. It was to trouble him for the rest of his life.

During the First World War, Huxley spent much of his time at Garsington Manor, near Oxford, workin...