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Rachel Huxley (1862–1884)
Rachel Eckersley (1884–1895)

1862–1934

Daughter of Henrietta Anne and Thomas Henry Huxley. Married Alfred Eckersley, a civil engineer, in 1884 and lived in various countries until his death in 1895 in San Salvador. Returned to London, where she ran a laundry business until her marriage to Harold Shawcross, when she moved to Lancashire.

Source

R. W. Clark 1968, pp. 98, 109, 129, 165, and passim.

Bibliography

Clark, Ronald W. 1968. The Huxleys. London: Heinemann.

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