Background
MARPLES, Brian was born on March 31, 1907 in. Hessle, Yorkshire. Son of George Marples and Anne Marples.
MARPLES, Brian was born on March 31, 1907 in. Hessle, Yorkshire. Son of George Marples and Anne Marples.
He was educated at Kingsmead in Cheshire, and Street Bees in Cumberland before attending Exeter College at Oxford University. He graduated as a Bachelor from Oxford in 1929, subsequently obtaining a Master of Science from the University of Manchester in 1931, and Master of Arts from Oxford in 1933.
From 1930 to 1936 Marples worked as Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at Manchester. In 1937 he went to New Zealand to become Professor of Zoology at the University of Otago, a position he served in for 30 years before retiring in 1967 to Woodstock, near Oxford in southern England. He published numerous papers on a wide variety of zoological topics, especially in the fields of ornithology, arachnology and fossil penguins.
He was also a cofounder of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand.
1953 – Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand.
Married Mary Joyce Ransford in 1931.