Gerald Durrell OBE
(1925-1995)

writer, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and zoologist

Died aged 70

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote approximately forty books, mainly about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals (1956). Those memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into two television series (My Family and Other Animals, 1987, and The Durrells, 2016–2019) and one television film (My Family and Other Animals, 2005). He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

Gerald Durrell 1925-1995 Zoologist and writer lived here as a child

43 Alleyn Park, Dulwich, London, United Kingdom where they was

Lawrence & Gerald Durrell Writers & Philhellenes lived in Corfu 1935-39

Agoniston Politechniou, Corfu, Greece where they was