Background
Durrell, Lee McGeorge was born on September 7, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Harold Love and Harriet Elizabeth McGeorge. arrived in Jersey, 1979.
Durrell, Lee McGeorge was born on September 7, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Harold Love and Harriet Elizabeth McGeorge. arrived in Jersey, 1979.
She studied philosophy at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia before enrolling in 1971 for a graduate programme at Duke University, to study animal behaviour. She conducted research for her Doctor of Philosophy on the calls of mammals and birds in Madagascar.
Lee Durrell moved to Jersey and became involved with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (then the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust). She accompanied Durrell on his last three conservation missions: Mauritius, other Mascarene Islands and Madagascar (1982) (account in Gerald Durrell"s Ark on the Move) Russia (1986) (account in Durrell in Russia, co-authored with Gerald Durrell) Madagascar (1990) (account in Gerald Durrell"s The Aye-Aye and I) She was instrumental in getting the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust renamed after Gerald Durrell, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Jersey Zoo. She is also the editor of: The Best of Gerald Durrell ( HarperCollins, 1996) The companion book of a television series documents the series where she was co-presenter: Ourselves and Other Animals – from the television series with Gerald and Lee Durrell, Peter Evans (1987).
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She is also a member of various expert groups on conservation, and is fondly called "Mother Tortoise" in certain areas of Madagascar due to her work with the ploughshare tortoise. Lee Durrell was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2011 Birthday.
Married Gerald Malcolm Durrell, May 24, 1979 (deceased January, 1995).