[1][2] An elected council member of the Royal Horticultural Society, he became its vice president in 1991.
After graduation, he worked in the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Aircraft Production for 10 years as a flight technician (boffin).
After a brief service in the British Overseas Airways Corporation, he worked with the weekly magazine Amateur Gardening.
His ashes are buried with his parents and grandparents at the family grave in Watts Cemetery, Compton, Guildford.
[1] The Royal Horticultural Society instituted the Anthony Huxley Trophy in 1994 as an annual award to best exhibits of ornamental plants.