- Lived with his family on the Greek island of Corfu 1933-1939.
- Named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982.
- Brother of novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell.
- Durrell founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust in 1963 to operate a model captive-breeding zoo, a thirty-five-acre site on the Channel Island of Jersey. He had visited the Cameroons, Patagonia and other parts of Argentina to gather animals, and continued to travel in search of more when the zoo was operating smoothly.
- Last name is pronounced DUHR-uhl.
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