![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the feeder school for St Edward’s, Oxford, which Rodney attended before studying fine art and wood engraving at Eastbourne School of Art and gaining a national diploma in design. ![]() With the outbreak of the second world war Lionel joined the Royal Indian Navy and, in 1942, the boys returned to their maternal grandparents’ home in Eastbourne with their mother, Vivienne (nee Parry), to start at St Bede’s school. There their father, Lionel, co-managed the estates near Birdpur in the north of the country, which had been in the Peppé family since 1849. Of all the characters that Rodney created, Huxley was closest to his heart and, as both a star of page and screen, one of the most popular.īorn in Eastbourne, East Sussex, Rodney and his twin brother, Mark, were six months old when their parents returned to India. Among this group was his side-kick, “that rotten rodent” Horace, an indeterminate creature with prominent front teeth resembling a gopher. His Huxley Pig picture books (1989-91) ran alongside the stopmotion animation series narrated by Martin Jarvis, about a plump and charming little porker who embarked on a series of imagined adventures with his friends. ![]()
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