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Marjory Urquhart OBE (27 August 1912 - 9 May 2007) One of the first females anywhere to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from University of Aberdeen, the first female selected to be a member by Special Branch, she became the first female Police Inspector of the Home Counties in England, she was Aberdeen's first Children's Officer, and was instrumental in in the setting up of Social Work and Adoption services in the UK having been a passionate advocate for abused and orphaned children in a Local Authority setting. Born in Patagonia, where her father Alexander Urquhart, was a beef and sheep farmer and her mother, Betsy McDonald was a cook. The family moved back to farm in Scotland. Marjory died in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Education
Marjory was home schooled by her mother on a farm near Punto Arenas, Patagonia and in 1923, the family returned to Scotland to farm at Milton of Culloden, where Marjory continued her final 3 school years at Inverness Royal Academy. Marjory went on to the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1935, with a Bsc in Agriculture, the first woman to do so.