The Durrell family included: Lawrence Samuel Durrell (1884–1928), an Anglo-Indian Engineer and his wife Louisa Florence Durrell (1886–1964) and their children: * Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), a diplomat and writer, best known for writing The Alexandria Quartet, in addition to travel literature. * Leslie Durrell (1918–1983), the second eldest brother, noted in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy — My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods — to have had interests in ballistics, hunting and sailing. * Margaret Durrell (1920–2007), ran a boarding house in Bournemouth. Her account of that experience, Whatever Happened to Margo?, was published in 1995, about forty years after she wrote it. * Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), a popular naturalist, conservati