| Authorised form of name | Marr; John Edward (1857 - 1933); geologist |
| Dates | 1857 - 1933 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Poulton le Sands, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 14 June 1857 |
| Place of death | 126 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 01 October 1933 |
| Occupation | Geologist |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
Royal Lancaster Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge, MA, DSc, Hon PhD (1908, Prague)
Career:
University extension lecturer (1878-1882); to a fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge (1881); appointed university lecturer in geology (1886-1917); Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge (1917-1933).
Awards/Medals:
Lyell Medal 1900
Wollaston Medal 1914
Memberships:
FGS
FRSE |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1891 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| Proposer | William Whitaker |
| Peter Martin Duncan |
| Thomas Rupert Jones |
| Robert Etheridge |
| Alfred George Greenhill |
| Alexander Macalister |
| George Downing Liveing |
| Henry Hicks |
| Warington Wilkinson Smyth |
| Thomas George Bonney |
| John Wesley Judd |
| Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston |
| William Thomas Blanford |
| Alexander Henry Green |
| Thomas McKenny Hughes |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1930
Council 1904-1906 |
| Relationships | Parents: John Marr and Mary (née Simpson).
Spouse: (m. 1893) Amy Stubbs, daughter of John Stubbs of Shap Wells, Westmorland.
Children: Alleyne Marr, killed in the Second World War. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 15305
RCN 15307
RCN 15306
RCN 15309 |
| OtherInfo | Carried out exemplary studies of the Palaeozoic rocks of the Lake District, working out successions at key sites such as Ash Gill near Coniston, Skelgill near Ambleside, and Stockdale in Longsleddale. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 251-257, plate |
| Code | NA7143 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MM/16/52 | Letter from Archibald Geikie, Geological Survey, to [John Edward] Marr | 21 February 1899 |
| NLB/25/517 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to John Edward Marr, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 November 1902 |
| NLB/54/130 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Jethro Justinian Harris] Teall, FRS | 13 February 1917 |
| NLB/34/210 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to John Edward Marr, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 December 1906 |
| NLB/40/575 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr J [John] E [Edward] Marr FRS | 29 June 1909 |
| NLB/50/499 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John Edward] Marr, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 July 1914 |
| NLB/54/164 | Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 2 February 1917 |
| NLB/54/165 | Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Mr. [Edwin Tulley] Newton, FRS | 21 February 1917 |
| NLB/62/302 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, Chairman of the Geology Committee and FRS | 19 January 1922 |
| NLB/63/857 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 11January 1923 |
| NLB/63/57 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 20 June 1922 |
| NLB/64/155 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, Chairman of the Geology Committee and FRS | 13 February 1923 |
| NLB/65/108 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 31 July 1923 |
| NLB/62 | New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 11 November 1921-10 June 1922 |
| NLB/63/621 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Edward] Marr Esq, FRS | 16 November 1922 |
| NLB/66/215 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 18 March 1924 |
| NLB/67/469 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John] Horne, FRS | 5 January 1925 |
| NLB/68/184 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 26 May 1925 |
| NLB/73/8 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS | 8 October 1930 |
| MC/20/163 | Letter from [John Edward Marr], Cambridge, to [Joseph] Larmor | 13 January 1905 |
| EC/1891/14 | Marr, John Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/64 | New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 19 January 1923-11 July 1923 |
| RR/18/160 | Referee's report by John Edward Marr, on a paper 'On the discovery of a novel type flint implements below the base of the Red Crag of Suffolk, proving the existence skilled workers of flint in the Pliocene age' by Ray Lankester | 11 December 1911 |
| MC/20/164 | Letter from John [Edward] Marr, 104, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 14 January 1905 |
| MC/20/165 | Letter from John [Edward] Marr, 104, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 24 December 1905 |
| MC/32/239 | Letter from [Albert Charles] Seward, Botany School, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 7 February 1917 |
| NLB/65/322 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John Edward] Marr, FRS | 11 October 1923 |
| MC/37/90 | Letter from [John Edward] Marr, 29 Grange Road, Cabridge, to Dr [William Bate] Hardy, [Secretary], Royal Society | 13 October 1923 |
| MC/20 | Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1905 |