Retirement
In retirement, Marre engaged in a number of charitable and public activities. He served as the Chairman of Age Concern England between 1977 and 1980 and of the British Nutritional Foundation between 1981 and 1990. He was also a trustee of the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 1977 and 1983. Although Marre had not been a practising Jew, he gave some of his time to Jewish social and cultural causes, becoming President of the Maccabaeans in 1982.
Sir Alan Marre died in 1990.
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