home in England.

Major Huxley, who was 76, suffered a heart attack and died in his sleep on Sunday, September 6. He was Attorney General of Bermuda in 1952.

Born in 1915, one of two sons of Cornhill Magazine editor Leonard Huxley and his second wife Rosalind Bruce, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.

At the outbreak of the Second World War he became a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment. He was wounded in the Western Desert and from 1942 to 1946 was a brigade major in the Iraq Levies.

After the War, Major Huxley was called to the Bar. Then, while on holiday in Bermuda, he met the former Attorney General, Sir Trounsell Gilbert, who invited him to become Solicitor General. Major Huxley accepted the invitation and was appointed in 1948.

In 1952, when Sir Trounsell Gilbert became Chief Justice, Major Huxley was appointed Attorney General. He took the silk the same year, and became the youngest QC in England.

It was during his tenure as Attorney General that he revised and compiled the Public and Private Acts of the Legislature of Bermuda, 1620-1953. It was published in seven volumes.

Major Huxley served as Acting Chief Justice of Bermuda in 1955. Two years later he moved to New York to become vice president of an investment advisory company, staying there until he returned to England in 1976.

He was an active member of his community and a long serving member and Chairman of the Governors of Priorsfield School which was previously founded by his father and his father's first wife, Mrs. Julia Arnold.

Major Huxley married his first wife, Anne Remsen, an American, in 1939. They had five children, Angela, Michael, Frederica, Virginia and Elizabeth but the marriage ended in divorce.

In 1964, Major Huxley married American Ouida Branch Wagner after they met in New York.

Major. Huxley is survived by his wife, his 103-year-old mother, his children and eight grandchildren.