Lawrence Samuel Durrell (September 23, 1884 - April 16, 1928) was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell. He was an Anglo-Indian in the sense that he was an Englishman born and brought up in India. Born in Dum Dum (present day Kolkata) on September 23, 1884, he was by profession an engineer. Wikipedia
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