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Scottish swimmer & counsellor (1928–2004)

Born20 January 1928

Died15 April 2004(2004-04-15) (aged 76)

OccupationCounsellor

Margaret Jarvie
Born	20 January 1928
Died	15 April 2004(2004-04-15) (aged 76)
Occupation	Counsellor

Margaret Jarvie (née Bolton; 20 January 1928 – 15 April 2004) was a Scottish swimmer and counsellor. She taught at the University of Edinburgh's Moray House.

Jarvie was born on 20 January 1928 in Motherwell, to fishmongers Kate Wardrope and John Bolton.^[1] She was married to engineer David Gray Jarvie, with whom she had two sons, Colin and Grant.^[2]^[3] She lived in Corstorphine for a number of years.

Swimming career

Jarvie was one of only two women to win all Scottish swimming championship titles from 50 to 1,000 yards, and swam with Motherwell Ladies' Relay Team. She broke the Scottish breaststroke record in 1945, and held the Scottish senior titles from 1944 to 1948. Along with her husband David Jarvie, she was part of an aquatic team that won 172 Scottish and 47 British records between 1936 and 1960.^[1]

Counselling career

Jarvie worked in counselling for more than 40 years. She was on the staff of the University of Edinburgh's Moray House for 24 years where she was a course leader in guidance and counselling and contributed to the establishment of the first award-bearing course on counselling for those working in welfare and healthcare.^[4]

In 1955, Jarvie signed up for a counselling training scheme and went on to become the youngest marriage guidance counsellor in Scotland and one of the Scottish Marriage Guidance Council's first educational tutors. She became very interested in how schools handled guidance counselling, and went on to study sociology at the University of Edinburgh because she "thought educators would listen more" if she was a teacher.^[4]

Jarvie was also employed by the Bank of Scotland to counsel employees involved in traumatic bank raids.^[5]^[6]

In his book The Persons in Relation Perspective: In Counselling, Psychotherapy and Community Adult Learning, author Colin Kirkwood acknowledges the influence of Jarvie, in particular through her involvement in the Gorbals Group and the Iona Community, where Jarvie and her husband worked together on the Rowen Engineering project.^[7]^[8]

References

1 2 Ewan, Elizabeth (ed.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474436298. OCLC 1057237368.
↑ "David Jarvie". HeraldScotland. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
↑ Sutherland, Fraser (12 January 2013). "Obituary: Colin Jarvie, photographer, lecturer and traveller". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
1 2 Little, Aileen (10 March 1993). "Counsel can be good for the giver". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
↑ Little, Aileen (2 January 1996). "Secret of keeping wise counsel". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
↑ Hilpern, Kate (2 May 1999). "After the crisis at work, enter the counsellors". The Independent. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
↑ Colin., Kirkwood (2012). The Persons in Relation Perspective : In Counselling, Psychotherapy and Community Adult Learning. Rotterdam: Sense. ISBN 9789460919091. OCLC 818827964.
↑ Ross., Muir, Anne (2011). Outside the safe place : an oral history of the early years of Iona Community. Glasgow: Wild Goose. ISBN 9781849520799. OCLC 776826611.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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