Location: Watts Memorial Chapel Cemetery, Compton, Surrey, England
Cause of death: Cancer - throat
Photo taken by: Clive and Chris
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British novelist. Born in Godalming, Surrey into a family of scientists. He was educated at Eton and read English literature at Balliol College, Oxford. He started writing seriously in his early twenties. He married and in 1937 he and his wife moved to Hollywood, where as well as his novels he worked as a screenwriter.
After the end of World War Two he applied to become a citizen of the United States; however his application was turned down as he refused to say that he would take up arms to defend America. He became famous for his experiments with drugs, such as LSD.
In 1955 his first wife died and the following year he remarried. Huxley died on the same day as President Kennedy and the author C.S. Lewis. He was cremated in California and his ashes were returned to England and buried in the grave of his parents.
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