Annie Cameron
Annie Isabella Cameron (1897-1973) was a Scottish historian.
Biography[]
She was the daughter of Mary Sinclair, and James Cameron, a Glasgow engineer. She studied history at the University of Glasgow and the University of St Andrews. She wrote a doctoral thesis on Bishop Kennedy of St Andrews.
She worked at the Scottish Record Office and in 1938 married George Dunlop, proprietor of the Kilmarnock Standard.[1]
She died in 1973.
Marcus Merriman, a historian of the Rough Wooing acknowledged Annie Cameron, Marguerite Wood, and Gladys Dickinson for their work publishing 16th-century primary sources. He praised Cameron for her "stunning" edition of the Scottish correspondence of Mary of Guise, "placing in the hands of the researcher something formidably useful."[2]
Selected publications[]
- Annie I. Cameron, Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine (SHS: Edinburgh, 1927)
- Robert S. Rait & Annie I. Cameron, King James's Secret: Negotiations between Elizabeth and James VI relating to the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, from the Warrender Papers (London, 1927)
- Annie I. Cameron, Warrender Papers, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1931)
- Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936)
- Annie Dunlop, The Life and Times of James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews (St Andrews, 1950).
- Annie Dunlop, The Royal Burgh of Ayr (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953).
References[]
- 1897 births
- 1973 deaths
- 20th-century Scottish women
- Scottish historians
- Scottish scholars and academics
- 20th-century historians
- 20th-century Scottish historians
- Historians of Scotland
- British historian stubs