![]() ![]() Durrell was enrolled in Wickwood School, but frequently stayed at home, feigning illness. The family moved to Britain shortly before the death of his father in 1928 and settled in the Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace, area of South London. Durrell reportedly recalled his first visit to a zoo in India and attributed his lifelong love of animals to that encounter. Durrell's father was a British engineer and, as was commonplace for a family of their status, the infant Durrell spent most of his time in the company of an ayah (nursemaid). He was the fifth and youngest child (an elder sister having died in infancy) of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent. ![]() Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, British India, on 7 January 1925. ![]()
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