![]() ![]() He would also be a meticulous proof-reader for Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, and Lawrence Durrell's The Greek Islands. Stephanides would later send Lawrence Durrell medicines for the British Embassy in Cyprus (as noted from correspondence in Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel" (1969), by Lawrence Durrell). It was around this time, in 1936, that he was introduced to the Durrell family, including Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell, who would remain lifelong friends. He started Corfu field work in 1933, based on directives from Corfiat health authorities, to prepare a report on the principal localities where anti-malarial measures would be necessary. He married Mary Alexander, granddaughter of a former British Consul and of English and Greek parentage, shortly afterwards. He returned to Corfu in 1930 to establish the island's first X-ray unit. He published two works of translated poetry in 19, but pursuing an alternative career path, went to Paris in 1929, to study Medicine. Stephanides served as a gunner in the Greek Army during World War I on the Greek Macedonian front, and again in the War in Asia Minor, 1919-1922 against Turkey. At age 11, after his father's retirement, he went to live in Corfu with his family, learning Greek there. Theodore Stephanides was born in India to Greek parents, hailing from Thessaly. ![]()
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