Valerie Marrian

Marian studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and represented their swimming club. She won three swimming titles at the 1954 Inter-Varsities Championships, after successes in the 100 yards backstroke, the springboard and the platform diving.^[1] Marrian also competed for her Warrender Amateur Swimming Club in Edinburgh.^[2]

She represented the Scottish Empire and Commonwealth Games team^[3] at the 1958 British Empire Games in Cardiff, Wales,^[4] participating in the springboard diving event.^[5]

Marrian qualified as a doctor and was a consultant paediatrician and was involved in a high profile blood tranfusion case in 1973.^[6]