[4] The school started with a five-acre (2 ha) plot and a moderately sized house designed by C.F.A.

Voysey,[4] Julia Huxley opened her school with herself as head with one boarder, five day girls, Miss English, Mademoiselle Bonnet, a wire-haired terrier and her 7+1⁄2-year-old son, Aldous.

[5] Huxley's funeral service took place in the Watts Cemetery Chapel and she was buried close to one of it walls.

[5] In March 2017 the school she founded opened a new Science, Technology and Music Centre, named the Arnold Building, in memory of her.

Scholars of Aldous's works can see his mother's death in his cynical attitude and his books including Eyeless in Gaza, Brave New World and the Utopian Island.