Editing Lawrence Durrell (section)

==Early years in India and schooling in England==
Durrell was born in [[Jalandhar]], [[British India]], the eldest son of Indian-born British colonials [[Louisa Durrell|Louisa]] (who was Anglo-Irish) and [[Lawrence Samuel Durrell]], an engineer of English ancestry.<ref name="migrant"/> His first school was [[St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling|St. Joseph's School]], North Point, [[Darjeeling]]. He had three younger siblings — two brothers and a sister — naturalist [[Gerald Durrell]], Leslie Durrell and author [[Margaret Durrell]].

Like many other children of the [[British Raj]], at the age of 11, Durrell was sent to England for schooling, where he briefly attended [[St Olave's Grammar School]] before being sent to [[St Edmund's School Canterbury]]. His formal education was unsuccessful, and he failed his university entrance examinations. He began to write poetry seriously at the age of 15. His first collection, ''Quaint Fragments'', was published in 1931, when he was 19 years old.

Durrell's father died of a [[brain haemorrhage]] in 1928, at the age of 43. His mother brought the family to England, and in 1932, she, Durrell, and his younger siblings settled in [[Bournemouth]]. There, he and his younger brother [[Gerald Durrell|Gerald]] became friends with [[Alan G. Thomas]], who had a bookstore and would become an [[antiquarian]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Botting, Douglas|title=Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography|publisher=HarperCollins|year=1999|isbn=0-00-255660-X}}</ref> Durrell had a short spell working for an [[estate agent]] in [[Leytonstone]] (East London).<ref>{{cite book|title=Amateurs in Eden: the story of a bohemian marriage; Nancy and Lawrence Durrell|first=Joanna|last=Hodgkin|isbn=9781844087945|location=London|publisher=Virago|year=2013}}</ref>