Tom; the run-away chimney sweep's boy; who falls into the river and becomes a Water Baby; being examined by Richard Owen (left) and Thomas Henry Huxley. Owen was an opponent of Darwinism; Huxley; called 'Darwin's bulldog'; its great champion. Illustration by Linley Sambourne for Charles Kingsley The Water Babies; ondon; 1885. The book was first published in 1863.