Professor George Huxley – a classic rebel

The 1950s were years of growing confidence and strength for the English Catholic Church.

George Huxley took Bede as his baptismal name on converting to Catholicism aged 21.
photo: courtesy of the huxley family

The son of a secularist English family who was received into the Catholic Church on his twenty-first birthday and enrolled as an Irish citizen in his eighties, an erudite classics scholar who became embroiled in Bloody Sunday, George Huxley’s was a life of conversions and paradoxes / By PATRICK MARNHAM

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