Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995

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Birth 1925-01-07
Death 1995-01-30
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English

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Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (born 7 January 1925, Jamshedpur, India-died 30 January 1995, Saint Helier, Jersey), British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. His memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into the television series The Durrells, and he wrote a number of books about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals. He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.

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