He was born in Umeå, the son of county accountant Magnus Huss and his wife Fanny Emilia Adolfina Grape.
[2] After the family home was destroyed in the Umeå city fire later that year, they moved to Stockholm.
[6] In 1907 Huss became director of the Stockholm Farmaceutiska institutet, the Health Board's biological laboratory, a position he held until 1940.
[1] During the 1930s she wished to re-establish contact with Basanta Kumar Mallik, whom she had met in Oxford, England, in the years before her marriage.
Mallik in 1936 voyaged from Kidderpore on the DDG Hansa line cargo steamer SS Neuenfels to Hamburg, where Lilian, by then an invalid met him.