Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones was born in Grahamstown, South Africa on 14 March 1908 and at the age of four moved to England. He studied under Robert Emerson at Wolverhampton School of Art from 1924 to 1929, and under Richard Garbe and Gilbert Ledward at the Royal College of Art in London from 1929 to 1933.
He subsequently worked as a sculptor. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy in London from 1938 to [posthumously] 1969. He also exhibited at the New English Art Club in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Society of Scottish Artists and Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Art.
He was elected an Associate of Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1938; a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1945; an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (ARBSA) in 1937; and a full member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1946. He was also a member of Chelsea Arts Club.
Notable among his commissions were the Helios Statue and other work for the BBC Television Centre at White City, London; the Joy of Life, located on the Park Lane side of Hyde Park opposite Mount Street, London; and the commission by the Royal Geographical Society of a bronze statue of explorer David Livingstone in London.
He was appointed Head of the Sculpture Department at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen in 1937, a post he held until 1947. He also taught at the Royal College of Art in London from 1949 to 1959.
His address was given as 82 Stanley Street, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1938; West Park, Primrose Hill, Cults, Aberdeenshire in 1941 and 1948; High House, Broomfield, near Cheltenham, Essex in 1949 and 1968. He died in Broomfield, near Cheltenham, Essex on 10 December 1968.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)