Annie Cameron

Scottish historian

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).

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. ISSN 0036-9241.