David Bruce Huxley (1915-1992) was our great grandfather. \u00a0He was born to Leonard Huxley and Rosalind Bruce in London, 21 years after his half-brother Aldous Huxley was born. \u00a0David loved his older half-siblings, but his much later birth meant some social separation from them. \u00a0He was naturally closer to his younger brother Andrew, the Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n
David was educated at Christ Church at Oxford University, but any plans for using his degree were put on hold due to the outbreak of World War II. \u00a0Fortunately, he thrived in his military service. He began as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment and went to North Africa, where he fought Rommel in the desert. \u00a0According to his son, David \u201cgot blown to hell\u201d and was sent to a hospital in Cairo, where he contracted dysentery.<\/p>\n
At the end of his convalescence he was reassigned to Iraq for 3-4 years, where he put together a small defense force. \u00a0He loved doing the spying, according to his son, but knew they\u2019d fall apart if the Germans arrived. He played desert polo and hunted for foxes in his down time, and established a house of leisure for the troops. \u00a0David left the Army as a Major.<\/p>\n
After his return from the war, David gained posts in Bermuda as the solicitor general, attorney general and acting chief justice of the Supreme Court \u2013 for almost two decades. He made Bermuda attractive to US investors. \u00a0He compiled and revised the \u201cPrivate and Public Acts of the Legislature of Bermuda 1620-1953,\u201d a seven-volume work. \u00a0The 1953 West Indies and Caribbean Yearbook\u00a0lists<\/a>\u00a0David as the Attorney General.<\/p>\n David\u00a0married<\/a>\u00a0Anne Remsen Schenck (1918-1993) in the Spring of 1939 in Chelsea. Anne participated in the World War II effort as an ambulance driver in London, frequently witnessing Nazi air raids, and even being injured during one. \u00a0She also contributed her services as a logistical organizer. \u00a0Family legend also contends that she was a member of the OSS, befriending and spying on Nazi officers in the early years of the war.<\/p>\n Anne was the daughter of Frederic Schenck (1886-1919) and Marie Civilise Alexandre (1891-1967). \u00a0Marie Civilise Alexandre was the granddaughter of the Civil War General Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911) through her mother Helen Lispenard Webb (1859-1929). \u00a0Therefore, General Alexander Webb is our third great-grandfather through Anne. \u00a0Our Webb family history\u00a0sketch<\/a>\u00a0offers details.<\/p>\n David and Anne had the following children:<\/p>\n David took a position as a vice president and legal adviser to Arnold Bernhard and Company and the Value Line Fund in New York from 1957 to 1976. \u00a0The marriage ended in divorce in 1961.<\/p>\n David then married Ouida Branch Wagner (1918-1998) in 1964. \u00a0They retired to England in the late 1970s, where David took on the duties of warden of his local church. \u00a0He loved the \u201cbells and smells\u201d of the church, according to his son.<\/p>\n \n David Bruce Huxley and Anne Remsen Schenck<\/strong><\/p>\n David Bruce Huxley, Q.C. (1915-1992) and Anne Remsen Schenck (1918-1993) were our great grandparents. \u00a0David was born to\u00a0Leonard Huxley and Rosalind Bruce<\/a>\u00a0in London, 21 years after his half-brother Aldous Huxley was born. \u00a0David loved his older half-siblings, but his much later birth meant some social separation from them. \u00a0He was naturally closer to his younger brother Andrew, the Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n David was educated at Christ Church College at Oxford, and was proud of being the youngest Queen\u2019s Counsel at the time. He also said he was the only QC to have spent a night in jail (for pinching a policeman\u2019s helmet) He was at the Inns of Court when war broke out, then he joined the Court Regiment and thrived in his military service. He began as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment and went to North Africa, where he fought Rommel in the desert. \u00a0According to his son, David \u201cgot blown to hell\u201d, developed vascular dysentery, and was sent to a hospital in Cairo.<\/p>\n At the end of his convalescence he was reassigned to Iraq for 3-4 years, where he put together a small defense force. \u00a0He loved doing the spying, according to his son, but knew they\u2019d fall apart if the Germans arrived. He played desert polo and hunted for foxes in his down time, and established a house of leisure for the troops. \u00a0David left the Army as a Major.<\/p>\n After his return from the war, David gained appointed posts in Bermuda as the solicitor general, attorney general and acting chief justice of the Supreme Court \u2013 for a total of almost two decades. He made Bermuda attractive to US investors. \u00a0He compiled and revised the \u201cPrivate and Public Acts of the Legislature of Bermuda 1620-1953,\u201d a seven-volume work. \u00a0The 1953 West Indies and Caribbean Yearbook\u00a0lists<\/a>\u00a0David as the Attorney General.<\/p>\n David\u00a0married<\/a>\u00a0Anne Remsen Schenck (1918-1993) in the Spring of 1939 in Chelsea. Anne was the daughter of Frederic Schenck (1886-1919) and Marie Civilise Alexandre (1891-1967).<\/p>\n Anne also took part in the war effort, possibly serving in the OSS in the early war according to family history, and then as a London ambulance driver and social aid organizer. She wrote her mother frequently during the war, describing constant Nazi air raids and the damage it inflicted on the community. \u00a0She recounted being thrown by an explosion and injuring her nose. \u00a0But she took most of it in stride, commenting in one letter that \u201cwar becomes me.\u201d<\/p>\n David and Anne had the following children:<\/p>\n Under pressure from his wife to move to New York, David took a position as a vice president and legal adviser to Arnold Bernhard and Company and the Value Line Fund in New York from 1957 to 1976.<\/p>\n After his divorce from Anne, he married Ouida Branch Wagner (1918-1998) in 1964. \u00a0They retired to England in the late 1970s, where David took on the duties of warden of his local church. \u00a0He loved the \u201cbells and smells\u201d of the church, according to his son.<\/p>\n David died of heart failure on 6 September 1992 at their home in Wansford, England, according to a New York Times obituary.<\/p>\n David died of heart failure on 6 September 1992 at their home in Wansford, England, according to a\u00a0New York Times obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"David](\"https:\/\/thehuxleystory.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/david-huxley-with-michael.jpg?w=1024&h=681\")
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