Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson | |
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| Born | Marjorie Ogilvie Cunningham 9 February 1909 paleographer |
| Spouse | Alan Orr Anderson |
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (née Cunningham) (9 February 1909 – 27 May 2002) was a Scottish historian and paleographer.
Early years
Born Marjorie Ogilvie Cunningham in
Oxford University
.
Career
After graduation she joined Alan Orr Anderson, whose eyesight was failing, as his paleographer and assistant. They married in 1932. Alan Anderson died in 1958, but Mrs Anderson continued to publish on early Scottish subjects, most notably her Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland and her revision of Early Sources of Scottish History, the standard collection of source material on Scottish History to 1286, written by Alan Anderson and first published in 1922.
Honours
Mrs Anderson received an honorary
University of Saint Andrews in 1973. A festschrift
in her honour was published in 2000.
Death
She died in 2002.
Select bibliography
- (editor) Anderson, Alan Orr, Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286, 2nd edition, Stamford, 1990.
- (with Alan Orr Anderson) Adomnan's Life of Columba, Edinburgh 1961 (revised Oxford, 1991)
- (with Alan Orr Anderson) The Chronicle of Holyrood, Edinburgh, 1938.
- Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland, Edinburgh, 1973 (revised Edinburgh, 1980)
References
- Taylor, Simon, "Introduction" and "Bibliography of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson" in Taylor (ed.), op. cit.
- Taylor, Simon, "The Anderson Century: 100 years of Early Medieval Scottish Historical Study" in History Scotland, Volume 2, Number 6 (November/December 2002).
- ISBN 1-85182-516-9
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