Durrell Family
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The Durrell family included
Lawrence Samuel Durrell, an Anglo-Indian Engineer and his wife Louisa Florence Durrell and their children:
- Gerald Durrell, a popular naturalist, conservationist, television host and author, credited with redefining the modern Zoo. Founder of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
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- His first wife, Jacquie Durrell, author, naturalist and television host
- His second wife, Lee McGeorge Durrell, author, naturalist and Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
- Lawrence Durrell, A diplomat and writer, best known for writing The Alexandria Quartet, in addition to travel literature
- Leslie Durrell, the second eldest Durrell brother, hunter and sportsman
- Margaret Durrell, ran a boarding house. Her memoirs, Whatever Happened to Margo? were published posthumously
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The family lived in India, and, following Lawrence Samuel's death in 1928, in England and Corfu until 1939. Gerald's autobiographical work My Family and Other Animals (and the other two books in the Corfu Trilogy - Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Garden of the Gods) records their time in Corfu and made the family quite famous. While in Corfu, the family were friends with Theodore Stephanides, who, as a poet, acted as a mentor to Lawrence and, as a naturalist, to Gerald.
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Institutions associated with: Jersey Zoo • Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust • Wildlife Trust • Wildlife Preservation Canada • Mauritian Wildlife Foundation • Madagascar Fauna Group • Programme for Belize • World Land Trust • World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival Co-conservationists: Lee Durrell • David Attenborough • Peter Scott • Jeremy Mallinson • Edward Whitley Expeditions undertaken: Argentina • Australia • Belize • Bhutan • Cameroon • India • Madagascar • Malaysia • Mauritius • Mexico • New Zealand • Paraguay • Russia • Sierra Leone Species associations: Aye-Aye • Gorilla • Mauritius Kestrel • Pink Pigeon • Pigmy Hog • Rockfowl • St. Lucia Parrot • Volcano Rabbit Books authored: The Overloaded Ark • Three Singles to Adventure • The Bafut Beagles • The New Noah • The Drunken Forest • My Family and Other Animals • Encounters with Animals • A Zoo in My Luggage • The Whispering Land • Island Zoo • A Look at Zoos • Menagerie Manor • Two in the Bush • The Donkey Rustlers • Rosie is My Relative • Birds, Beasts and Relatives • Fillets of Plaice • Catch Me a Colobus • Beasts in My Belfry • The Talking Parcel • The Stationary Ark • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons • The Garden of the Gods • The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium • The Mockery Bird • Ark on the Move • The Amateur Naturalist • How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist • Durrell in Russia • The Fantastic Flying Journey • The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure • The Ark's Anniversary • Keeper • Toby the Tortoise • Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories • The Aye-Aye and I • Puppy Tales • The Best of Gerald Durrell Illustrators: Ralph Thompson • Edward Mortelmans • Peter Barrett • Graham Percy • Keith West • Cliff Wright Famous TV Series: Two in the Bush • Catch Me a Colobus • The Garden of the Gods • The Stationary Ark • Ark on the Move • The Amateur Naturalist • Ourselves and Other Animals • Durrell in Russia Notable others: Durrell Family • Jacquie Durrell • Lawrence Durrell • Achirimbi II • Theodore Stephanides • Douglas Botting |
