James Marr (1918–2009) was the author of ''The History of Guernsey'', acclaimed on publication in 1982 as the most important book on the islands since Ferdinand Tupper's history more than a century earlier. Marr was the son of Leonard and Elvina (née Machon) Marr and was born at their family home in Les Canichers,

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, Guernsey. He was educated at

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College, Guernsey, and the College of St Mark and St John, London, graduating with honours in economics and political science. During

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, he served in the British Army in France, North Africa, Italy and Austria. He was a schoolmaster at Hackney Downs, London, specialising in his subjects, and simultaneously taking history. Other books by James Marr on historical aspects of Guernsey include: ''Guernsey People''; ''More People in Guernsey's Story''; ''Bailiwick Bastions''; ''Bailiwick Harbours and Landing Places''; and ''Guernsey Between the Wars: An Islander Recalls his Youth''. He wrote a fictional trilogy, ''Two Men and a Woman'', set in the island, and was a regular contributor to ''The Review of the Guernsey Society''.

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