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After finishing his education at Lancaster Grammar School an exhibition at St John's College, Cambridge led to a foundation scholarship.
Marr spent four years at Cambridge as a university lecturer, specialising in the relationship between geology and scenery.
In many ways he was a pioneer in this field, a subject he developed in his book “The Scientific Study of Scenery.”
In 1881 he was elected a Fellow of St John's College and in 1886 he was appointed lecturer in Geology at Cambridge under Thomas McKenny Hughes.
Marr had spent his early life exploring the Lake District and North Wales. Following his studies on the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Bohemia, and papers on the Palaeozoic rocks, he acquired a world wide reputation as the authority on rocks of this age.
Marr was a council member of the Geological Society of London for over 30 years and was President from 1904 to 1906. He received the Societies highest award, the Woolaston Medal in 1914.
In 1891 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. As well as the importance of his work as a geologist, and his published works, he was instrumental in making Cambridge the foremost school of geology in the country. He was awarded a Royal Medal by the Society in 1930.
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