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Durrell Conservation Academy
Durrell is a surname, and may refer to Members of the Durrell family * Gerald Durrell * Jacquie Durrell * Lawrence Durrell * Lawrence Samuel Durrell * Lee McGeorge Durrell * Louisa Dixie Durrell * Margaret Durrell * Leslie Durrell * Shame Durrell Others * Dick Durrell * Jim Durrell * Martin Durrell * Michael Durrell See also * Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organization 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. Th ... * Durel (surname) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Durrell
Gerald Malcolm Durrell Order of the British Empire, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservation movement, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Durrell, Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled ''The Overloaded Ark'', sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published ''My Family and Other Animals'', which became a bestse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacquie Durrell
Jacqueline Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden; born 17 November 1929 in Manchester, United Kingdom) is a British author. Born Jacquie Wolfenden, she married naturalist Gerald Durrell and worked alongside him for many years. She assisted him on several of his animal collecting expeditions and at Jersey Zoo, which he founded. The Durrells divorced in 1979. Marriage to Gerald Durrell She was born Jacqueline Sonia Wolfenden. Jacquie was 19 when she met Gerald Durrell, during his first stay in her father's hotel in Manchester after an animal-collecting expedition. The two began dating, although initially Jacquie claimed that she was very reluctant to become Durrell's girlfriend. Jacquie's father did not approve of her relationship with Durrell, and was completely antipathetic towards the idea of the couple's marriage, chiefly because he considered that Durrell had no money and apparently no career prospects. Jacquie could not marry without her parents' permission until she was 21, so afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of 11 for his education. He did not like formal education, and started writing poetry at the age of 15. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23 years old. In March 1935 he and his mother and younger siblings moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years thereafter living around the world. His most famous work is '' The Alexandria Quartet'', published between 1957 and 1960. The best-known novel in the series is the first, '' Justine''. Beginning in 1974, Durrell published '' The Avignon Quintet'', using many of the same techniques. The first of these novels, '' Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness'', won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974. The middle novel, '' Constance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Samuel Durrell
Lawrence Samuel Durrell (23 September 1884 – 16 April 1928) was a British engineer. He was the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Early life Durrell was born in Dum Dum, north of Calcutta (present day Kolkata) on 23 September 1884, the son of Samuel Amos Durrell and his wife, Dora Maria Johnstone, and christened in Fatehgarh, Bengal, on 7 October 1884. Career An engineer by profession, he studied in the Thomason College of Civil Engineering (now the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee). While he worked for the North-West Railway in Jalandhar, his son Lawrence was born in 1912. Durrell went on to work for the Mymensingh–Bhairab Bazar Railway Company in Bengal. In 1918, he became the chief engineer of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, and in 1920 left the company to found his own company Durrell & Co., Engineers and Contractors at Sakci, which became the industrial boomtown of Jamshedpur. Gerald Durrell was born in Jamsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee McGeorge Durrell
Lee McGeorge Durrell (née McGeorge; born September 7, 1949) is an American naturalist, author, zookeeper, and television presenter. She is 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. Biography Lee was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and showed an interest in wildlife as a child. She studied philosophy at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia before enrolling in 1971 for a graduate programme at Duke University, to study animal behaviour. She conducted research for her PhD on the calls of mammals and birds in Madagascar. She met Gerald Durrell when he gave a lecture at Duke University in 1977, and married him in 1979. Lee Durrell moved to Jersey and became involved with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (then the ''Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust''). She accompanied Durrell on his last three conservation missions: *Mauritius, other Mascarene Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Dixie Durrell
Louisa Florence Durrell (; 16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was a British woman born in India during the British Raj. She was the mother of Lawrence, Leslie, Margo and Gerry Durrell. She was featured in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical Corfu trilogy, which tells about the Durrells' years in Corfu from 1935 to 1939 in a somewhat fictionalized way. Biography Louisa Florence Dixie was born in 1886 to an Anglo-Irish Protestant family in Roorkee, India, where her family were colonials in the years of the British Raj. Her father, George Dixie, was the head clerk and accountant of the Ganges Canal Foundry. In India, she met and married Lawrence Samuel Durrell, an English engineer also born in India. Together, they travelled all over India for Lawrence's engineering work. They had three sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Their second child, Margery Ruth, was born in November 1915 and died from diphtheria in April 1916. The surviving children were Lawrenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Durrell
Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell (4 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilogy of novels: ''My Family and Other Animals'', '' Birds, Beasts, and Relatives'', and '' The Garden of the Gods''. She wrote a memoir, ''Whatever Happened to Margo?'', giving a humorous account of her experiences as a Bournemouth landlady in the late 1940s. It includes details about the lives of her family, particularly Leslie, Gerald, and her mother Louisa Durrell following their time on Corfu. The manuscript was apparently written in the 1960s and was discovered in the attic by a granddaughter nearly 35 years later. It was published in 1995. Early life Durrell was born in Kurseong, Bengal, in British India and brought up in India and England. In 1935, along with her brothers Gerald and Leslie, she accompanied her mother to a new home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Durrell
Richard J. Durrell (ca. 1925 – March 7, 2008) was an American advertising executive and one of the founding staff members for ''People'' magazine.Founder of People Magazine from a website Durrell turned down an offer to play baseball for the franchise in order to attend the , from which he graduated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Durrell
James A. Durrell (born December 15, 1946) is a Canadian business owner, former politician and president of the Ottawa Senators. He served as Mayor of Ottawa from 1985 to 1991. Durrell has extensive governance experience and has served on numerous boards including the Business Development Bank of Canada, chairman of the Ottawa International Airport's Board of Directors, and chairman of the Ottawa Convention Centre. He also sat on the Ottawa Police Services Board. He has worked with numerous charities and organizations including the Ottawa Hospital, the United Way/Centraide Ottawa Campaign Cabinet, the Salvation Army, and the Kiwanis Club. Durrell received the Order of Canada in 2013. His Order of Canada medal capped off a year filled with tributes. In June he was awarded the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, and three months later was given the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In November, he received the Order of Ottawa. He owns Jim Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Durrell
Martin Durrell (born 6 November 1943) is an English academic who is known for his study of the German language. In 1990, Durrell was appointed to the Henry Simon Chair of German at the University of Manchester, until becoming professor emeritus at his retirement in 2008. Biography Durrell graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in Modern & Medieval Languages before earning a Diploma in General Linguistics at the University of Manchester. He then completed a doctorate at the University of Marburg. From 1967 to 1986, Durrell worked as a lecturer at the University of Manchester before spending four years as Professor of German at the Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London. From 1998 to 2008, Durrell was a member of the International Academic Council of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS). From 1995 to 2004, he served on the international committee of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) (serving as Vice-President during 2004-05). Durrell is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Durrell
Michael Durrell (born Sylvester Salvatore Ciraulo) is an American actor. Career Durrell began his career in the role of attorney Peter Wexler on the CBS soap opera '' The Guiding Light''. In 1969, he appeared on Broadway in ''Cock-A-Doodle-Dandy'' at the Lyceum Theatre. Other television roles were as police Lieutenant Moraga in the short-lived CBS crime drama Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ... ''Shannon (1981 TV series), Shannon'' (1981–1982), starring Kevin Dobson in the title role, and then as Nicholas Stone from 1984–1985 on CBS's ''Alice (American TV series), Alice''. Another well-known role was in 1983 in the NBC science fiction miniseries ''V (1983 miniseries), V'' and the 1984 sequel ''V (The Final Battle), V: The Final Battle'' as Robert Maxwell; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organization 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. The trust was renamed Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in its founder's honor on 26 March 1999. Its patron is Princess Anne, the Princess Royal. Its headquarters are at Les Augrès Manor on the isle of Jersey in the English Channel. The grounds of Les Augrès Manor form the Durrell Wildlife Park, which was originally established by Gerald Durrell in 1959 as a sanctuary and breeding center for endangered species. The zoological park was known as the ''Jersey Zoo'' at that time. As of 2016, the zoo was home to more than one hundred species of reptiles, birds and mammals, many of which are designated as endangered in the wild. Despite strong resistance to his ideas from much of the zoological community, in 1959 Gerald Durrell succeeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
