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Gerald Durrell

1925 - 1995

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Gerald Malcolm Durrell (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerald Durrell is the 62nd most popular social activist (up from 77th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from India (down from 74th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Social Activist.

Gerald Durrell is most famous for his book "My Family and Other Animals" which is about his childhood on the island of Corfu.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gerald Durrell ranks 62 out of 840. Before him are Witold Pilecki, Yemelyan Pugachev, Frantz Fanon, Dominique Pire, Syed Ahmad Khan, and Kim Hyong-jik. After him are Carl von Ossietzky, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Túpac Amaru II, Angela Davis, Alexey Stakhanov, and Jody Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Gerald Durrell ranks 31. Before him are Simon van der Meer, Jack Lemmon, Robert F. Kennedy, Carlos Castaneda, Frantz Fanon, and Rock Hudson. After him are Douglas Engelbart, Ananda Mahidol, Michel Piccoli, Peter Sellers, Julie Harris, and Angela Lansbury. Among people deceased in 1995, Gerald Durrell ranks 17. Before him are Mikhail Botvinnik, Maurizio Gucci, Michael Ende, Milovan Đilas, Gunnar Nordahl, and Dean Martin. After him are Konrad Zuse, Anatoly Dyatlov, Christian B. Anfinsen, Teresa Teng, William Alfred Fowler, and Harold Wilson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gerald Durrell ranks 76 out of 1,861. Before him are Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Akbar II (1760), Amartya Sen (1933), Jim Corbett (1875), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), and Syed Ahmad Khan (1817). After him are Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), Zubin Mehta (1936), Dara Shukoh (1615), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), and Shivaji (1627).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gerald Durrell ranks 3. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), and Syed Ahmad Khan (1817). After him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Kittur Chennamma (1778).

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