Annie I. Dunlop

Annie Isabella Cameron OBE (10 May 1897 – 23 March 1973), later Annie Dunlop, was a Scottish historian, editor, and university lecturer, but primarily "an independent scholar whose sole inspiration was the love of her subject."

Early life and education alt=Image of the outside of the register house in edinburgh. Cameron was born in Glasgow, at 16 Grafton Square, the daughter of Mary Sinclair, and James Cameron, a Glasgow engineer. By 1911 her family had moved to Strathaven, where she attending school. She then studied history at the University of Glasgow, being awarded a first class honours in 1919. She undertook teacher training at Jordanhill College in Glasgow but after a brief stint as a teacher, she returned to university to study for a PhD, where she was supervised by Professor R.K. Hannay at Edinburgh University. She then wrote a doctoral thesis on Bishop Kennedy of St Andrews and her degree was awarded on 17 July 1924. In 1927, she undertook a diploma in paleography at the British School at Rome. In 1928 she was awarded a Carnegie Research Fellowship to undertake research in Rome. While in Rome, her searches of the Vatican Archives found fifteenth century material relating to Scotland, especially for the Scottish Supplications to Rome. The publication of this archival material would become her life’s work. In 1944 she is recorded as being a part-time lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. She became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1942. At the end of her life, she received the papal Benemerenti medal, for her research in the Vatican archives. "Mrs Dunlop's most singular gift to medieval studies was her connecting Scotland and its scholars with Rome and its archives," wrote American historian Robert Brentano.

Selected publications Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine (Edinburgh: SHS, 1927). (with Robert S. Rait), King James's Secret: Negotiations between Elizabeth and James VI relating to the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, from the Warrender Papers (London: Nisbet, 1927)., Warrender Papers, 2 vols (Edinburgh: SHS, 1931) The Apostolic Camera and Scottish Benefices, 1418–1488 (1934) The Life and Times of James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews (1950) The Royal Burgh of Ayr: Seven Hundred and Fifty Years of History (Oliver and Boyd, 1953) Acta Facultatis Artium Universitatis Sanctiandree, 1413–1588 (Edinburgh: SHS, 1964). Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome, 1428-1432 (1970, co-editor, with Ian B. Cowan)