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| Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology |
The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology is a graduate school and institute under the University of Kent, started in 1989 and named in honour of the famous British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It is the first school in the United Kingdom to award degrees and diplomas in the fields of Conservation, Eco-tourism, Biodiversity Management and Ethnobotany. The institute awards diplomas to graduates of the International Training Centre for captive breeding and zoo specialists at the Jersey Zoological Park, founded in 1978 by Gerald Durrell. (references) |
| Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust |
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust was established by naturalist, author and television presenter Gerald Durrell on July 6 1963, as the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, to establish breeding colonies of endangered species at Jersey Zoological Park. (references) |
| Jacquie Durrell |
Jacqueline ('Jacquie') Sonia Durrell (nee Rasen) (b. 1929) was the first wife of Gerald Durrell. She helped Gerald Durrell on his animal collecting expeditions, and on the Jersey Zoological Park - which he founded. She is the author of two autobiographical accounts. (references) |
| Jim Durrell |
James A. Durrell is a former Mayor of Ottawa and president of the Ottawa Senators hockey team. He now works as the owner of Capital Dodge Chrysler Jeep. Durrell, an insurance executive, was elected to Ottawa City Council in 1980. When long serving mayor Marion Dewar retired Durrell defeated Marlene Catterall running on a right of centre platform. (references) |
| Lawrence Durrell |
English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Lawrence Durrell Collection |
The Lawrence Durrell Collection is a special collection of books and periodicals by, about or associated with the novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell, donated to the British Library by Alan G. Thomas. (references) |
| Lawrence George Durrell |
English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Lawrence Samuel Durrell |
Lawrence Samuel Durrell (September 23, 1884 - April 16, 1928) 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 a Britisher born and brought up in India. (references) |
| Lee McGeorge Durrell |
Lee McGeorge Durrell (nee Wilson) (b. September 7 1949) 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. (references) |
| Louisa Florence Durrell |
Louisa Fletcher Durrell (nee Dixie) was the mother of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell. She was born in Roorkee in 1886 where she met and married her husband Lawrence Samuel Durrell, an engineer by profession. Together, they travelled all over India on account of Lawrence Samuel Durrell's engineering work. She had four surviving children - the eldest Lawrence, Margaret, Leslie and Gerald. She was actively interested in spiritualism and cookery, and would freely mingle with Indians to learn of local spirits and cuisine, not conforming to the views of segregation of her time. Her husband too held anti-racist views. (references) |
| Margaret Durrell |
Margaret ('Margo') Isabel Mabel Durrell was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell, and elder sister of naturalist, author and T.V. presenter Gerald Durrell. Born in British India, she was brought up in India, England and Corfu. Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Garden of the Gods lampoons her character variously. (references) |
| Michael Durrell |
Michael Durrell (born October 6, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. (references) |
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