{{short description|British psychologist and educationist (1876–1951)}} {{Infobox person | name = Hilda Marley | honorific_suffix = OBE | image = HIldaMarley.png | alt = An older white woman in a black and white nun's habit, holding a small book in her hands. | caption = Sister Marie Hilda in the 1930s, from a 2012 publication. | other_names = Sister Marie Hilda | birth_name = Hilda Gertrude Marley | birth_date = 13 October 1876 | birth_place = Bishop Auckland | death_date = {{death-date and age|19 November 1951|13 October 1876}} | death_place = Glasgow | occupation = Educator, psychologist, religious sister | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse(s) = | relatives = }} '''Hilda Gertrude Marley''' OBE (13 October 1876 – 19 November 1951), known in her religious order as '''Sister Marie Hilda''', was a British educator, psychologist and Roman Catholic religious sister.
== Early life and education == Hilda Marley was born in Bishop Auckland in 1876, the daughter of George Marley and Marie Anne Caroline Simonds. Her father was a miller.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Ewan|first1=Elizabeth L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&q=Hilda+Marley&pg=PA253|title=Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women|last2=Innes|first2=Sue|last3=Reynolds|first3=Sian|last4=Pipes|first4=Rose|date=2007-06-27|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-2660-1|pages=253–254|language=en}}</ref> She moved with her family to Wynberg in 1879, and attended convent schools in South Africa and England.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Henryk Misiak|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.187430|title=Catholics In Psychology: A Historical Survey|date=1954|publisher=McGraw-Hill|pages=208–210}}</ref> She trained as a teacher at the Notre Dame Training College for Teachers in Liverpool. In 1910 she earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of London.<ref>{{Cite book|last=University of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0VAAAAAIAAJ&q=Hilda+Gertrude+Marley&pg=PA398|title=The Historical Record (1836-1912) Being a Supplement to the Calendar Completed to September 1912|date=1912|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|pages=398|language=en}}</ref> She pursued further studies in psychology at Louvain University.<ref name=":1">{{Cite ODNB|last=Richmond|first=Lesley M.|title=Marley, Hilda Gertrude [name in religion Marie Hilda] (1876–1951), psychologist and educationist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-52745|access-date=2020-07-09|date=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52745|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
== Career == In 1901, Marley became a sister in the Roman Catholic teaching order of Notre Dame de Namur. Bailey (or Sister Marie Hilda, as she was known) taught psychology at the Notre Dame Training College in Dowanhill, Glasgow, from 1904 to 1941. In 1931, she co-founded and directed the Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic with a colleague, Robert Robertson Rusk.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stewart|first=John|date=May 2006|title=An 'enigma to their parents': the founding and aims of the Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic, Glasgow|url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/inr.2006.57.1.54|journal=The Innes Review|language=en|volume=57|issue=1|pages=54–76|doi=10.3366/inr.2006.57.1.54|issn=0020-157X|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It was the first child guidance clinic in Scotland.<ref>Rodger, Thomas Ferguson. [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/89c87074-8f6c-33e7-8811-b9960fa6c1b0?component=34205283-c7d6-37e4-b4fa-a656571754c8 Typescript notes for a memorial lecture for Sister Marie Hilda titled 'The parent in the permissive society'] (October 1968), in the Papers of Thomas Ferguson Rodger, University of Glasgow Archive Services.</ref> She published a textbook,<ref name=":0" /> and spoke internationally on child guidance.<ref name=":1" /> She was frequently called upon to defend her work in the context of her religious vocation, especially when she engaged with modern and secular psychological ideas.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stewart|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lH5ECgAAQBAJ&q=%22Sister+Marie+Hilda%22+Glasgow&pg=PA73|title=Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood|date=2015-10-06|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-31912-2|pages=73–78|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=STEWART|first=JOHN W.|date=2006|title=Child Guidance in Interwar Scotland: International Influences and Domestic Concerns|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44448432|journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine|volume=80|issue=3|pages=513–539|doi=10.1353/bhm.2006.0117|jstor=44448432|pmid=17147134|s2cid=21175539|issn=0007-5140|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Marley became a fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1942. She was vice president of the Guild of Catholic Social Workers in 1943. In 1944, she was vice president of the Scottish branch of the British Psychological Society, and was appointed to the Scottish Advisory Council on the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders. In 1947 the Archbishop of Glasgow presented Marley with the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, and she became a fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland. In 1951 she was vice president of the Catholic International Congress of Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists. She served on the executive board of the Scottish Association for Mental Hygiene.<ref name=":1" />
== Personal life == Marley was deaf, and under 5 feet in height.<ref name=":1" /> She was named to the Order of the British Empire just before she died in 1951, aged 75 years, in Glasgow.<ref name=":0" /> Her clinic in Glasgow is now part of the Notre Dame Centre.<ref>{{Cite web|date=4 October 1999|title=The art of child's play|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12213572.the-art-of-childs-play/|access-date=2020-07-09|website=HeraldScotland|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Millar|first=Barbara|date=9 October 2019|title=The Notre Dame Centre: Supporting Children in Scotland for 90 Years|url=https://www.scottishreview.net/BarbaraMillar496a.html|access-date=2020-07-09|website=Scottish Review}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* Mary Ross, Jo McCallum, eds., ''Freedom to Grow: Celebrating 75 Years of the Notre Dame Centre in Scotland'' (Publishing Cupboard 2007). {{ISBN|978-0955329456}}
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