Euphemia "Effy" Irvine (28 August 1924 – February 2, 2018) was the first woman in Scotland to run a parish.

[1] She was brought up in Jordanvale Parish Church in Glasgow[2] and she left school when she was 14 and went to work in a plumbers office.

[2] She had wanted to work in an urban area so she had turned down this position in the country four times before she accepted it.

[2] Irvine thought her parish had made a "leap of faith",[4] but none of the congregation defected to other churches.

[6] Six years later the parishes reorganised and Irvine agreed to stay on at Milton of Campsie until she retired in 1988.