Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (née Cunningham) (9 February 1909 – 27 May 2002) was a
Scottish historian and
paleographer.
Early years
Born Marjorie Ogilvie Cunningham in
St Andrews
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, she attended
St Leonards School there before studying English at
Lady Margaret Hall
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,
Oxford University
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.
Career
After graduation she joined
Alan Orr Anderson
Alan Orr Anderson (1879–1958) was a Scottish historian and compiler. The son of Rev. John Anderson and Ann Masson, he was born in 1879. He was educated at Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh.
In 1908, after five ...
, 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
DLitt
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from the
University of Saint Andrews in 1973. A
festschrift
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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).
*
Watt, D.E.R., "Dr Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson: A tribute" in Simon Taylor (ed.), ''Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland 500–1297: Essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.'' Four Courts, Dublin, 2000.
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1909 births
2002 deaths
People educated at St Leonards School
Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
20th-century Scottish historians
Scottish antiquarians
British women historians
20th-century British women writers
20th-century antiquarians