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 Samuel Durrell and Louisa Durrell and their children were all born in India, as was Louisa Durrell's father, who lived in India during the British Raj
. Following Lawrence Samuel Durrell's death in 1928, Mrs Durrell and her three younger children moved to England where Lawrence had already been sent to be educated. In 1935 they moved to Corfu
, again following Lawrence's earlier move there with his wife. They remained in Corfu until 1939, when the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to England. Gerald's autobiographical work My Family and Other Animals
and another two books in his Corfu Trilogy records the family's time in Corfu, albeit in a somewhat fictionalized way.
Lawrence Samuel Durrell
Lawrence Samuel Durrell
Lawrence Samuel Durrell was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell. He was an Anglo-Indian in the sense that he was an Englishman born and brought up in India.Born in Dum Dum on 23 September 1884, he...
(1884–1928), an Anglo-Indian Engineer and his wife Louisa Florence Durrell
Louisa Florence Durrell
Louisa Dixie Durrell, born Louisa Florence Dixie was the mother of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell...
(1886–1964) and their children:
- Lawrence DurrellLawrence DurrellLawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan...
(1912–1990), a diplomat and writer, best known for writing The Alexandria QuartetThe Alexandria QuartetThe Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II.As Durrell...
, in addition to travel literature. - Leslie Durrell (1918–1983), the second eldest brother, noted in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy — My Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell Family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna...
, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the GodsThe Garden of the GodsThe Garden of the Gods is the third book in the autobiographical Corfu trilogy by naturalist and author, Gerald Durrell , following My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives....
— to have had interests in ballistics, hunting and sailing. - Margaret DurrellMargaret DurrellMargaret Isabel Mabel Durrell was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell, and elder sister of naturalist, author and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, whose Corfu Trilogy of novels — My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Garden of the Gods — lampoons her...
(1920–2007), ran a boarding house in BournemouthBournemouthBournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...
. Her account of that experience, Whatever Happened to Margo?, was published in 1995, about forty years after she authored it. - Gerald DurrellGerald DurrellGerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter...
(1925–1995), a popular naturalist, conservationist, television host and author, credited with redefining the modern zooZooA zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred....
. Founder of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation TrustDurrell Wildlife Conservation TrustDurrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organisation with a mission to save species from extinction.Gerald Durrell founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust as a charitable institution in 1963 with the Dodo as its symbol...
.- His first wife, Jacquie DurrellJacquie DurrellJacqueline Sonia Durrell was the first wife of Gerald Durrell. She assisted Gerald Durrell on several of his animal collecting expeditions, and with the Jersey Zoological Park - which he founded....
(1929– ), author, naturalist and television host - His second wife, Lee McGeorge DurrellLee McGeorge DurrellLee McGeorge Durrell MBE is a naturalist, author, zookeeper and television presenter, best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.-Brief biography:Lee was born in Memphis,...
(1949– ), author, naturalist and Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation TrustDurrell Wildlife Conservation TrustDurrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organisation with a mission to save species from extinction.Gerald Durrell founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust as a charitable institution in 1963 with the Dodo as its symbol...
- His first wife, Jacquie Durrell
Lawrence Samuel Durrell and Louisa Durrell and their children were all born in India, as was Louisa Durrell's father, who lived in India during the British Raj
British Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...
. Following Lawrence Samuel Durrell's death in 1928, Mrs Durrell and her three younger children moved to England where Lawrence had already been sent to be educated. In 1935 they moved to Corfu
Corfu
Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...
, again following Lawrence's earlier move there with his wife. They remained in Corfu until 1939, when the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to England. Gerald's autobiographical work My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell Family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna...
and another two books in his Corfu Trilogy records the family's time in Corfu, albeit in a somewhat fictionalized way.