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
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University of St Andrews
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. 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''.
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
Mary of Guise (french: Marie de Guise; 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560), also called Mary of Lorraine, was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine and one of the most powerful families in France. She ...
, "placing in the hands of the researcher something formidably useful."
[Marcus Merriman, ''The Rough Wooings'' (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2000), pp. xix, 102.]
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 writers
20th-century Scottish historians
Historians of Scotland
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