Annie Cameron Explained
Annie Isabella Cameron (1897-1973), later Annie Dunlop, 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, "Scottish Student Life in the Fifteenth Century" (1947)[3]
- 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).
Notes and References
- Elizabeth Ewan, 'Dunlop, Annie Isabella', Elizabeth L. Ewan, Sue Innes, Siân Reynolds, Rose Pipes, Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh, 2018), p. 127.
- Marcus Merriman, The Rough Wooings (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2000), pp. xix, 102.
- Dunlop . Annie I. . 1947 . Scottish Student Life in the Fifteenth Century . The Scottish Historical Review . 26 . 101 . 47–63 . 25525914 . 0036-9241.