Famous People with Name Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Lawrence George Durrell: was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Hence, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.

Michael Durrell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Durrell: is an American actor.He began his career on CBS in the soap opera The Guiding Light. He played attorney Peter Wexler. Other well known tv roles are on the CBS hit series Alice as Nicholas Stone from 1984 to 1985. His other well known role is in the 1983 NBC science fiction mini series called V and the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle as Robert Maxwell and reprised his role in the first 2 episodes of V: The Series.

Lee McGeorge Durrell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee McGeorge Durrell: 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.

Lawrence Samuel Durrell            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

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.he was by profession an engineer. He studied in the prestigious Thomason College of Civil Engineering (now the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee). It was in Roorkee that he met Louisa Florence Dixie and married her in 1910. They had three sons and a daughter - Lawrence, Leslie, Margaret, and Gerald. He worked for the North-West Railway and it was in Jalandhar that Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912. He also went on to work for the Mymensingh–Bhairab Bazar Railway Company in Bengal.