Durrell Family
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The Durrell family included:
Lawrence Samuel Durrell (1884–1928), an Anglo-Indian Engineer and his wife Louisa Florence Durrell (1886–1964) and their children:
- Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), 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
- Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), a popular naturalist, conservationist, television host and author, credited with redefining the modern Zoo. Founder of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
- His first wife, Jacquie Durrell (1929– ), author, naturalist and television host
- His second wife, Lee McGeorge Durrell (1949– ), author, naturalist and Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
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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