Jenny Wormald

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Jennifer Wormald (18 January 1942 – 9 December 2015) was a Scottish historian who studied late medieval and early modern Scotland.

Life

Jennifer (Jenny) was born in Glasgow on 18 January 1942, and was adopted by Margaret (née Dunlop) and Dr Thomas Tannahill, a general practitioner, and was then known as Jenny Tannahill.

She was educated at Glasgow High School for Girls, and went on to study history at the University of Glasgow, where she completed her PhD Her thesis was on the history of the late medieval Scottish nobility through analysis of a document known as a bond of manrent.{{Cite news|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/15D35DF62F775248?p=UKNB|title=Jenny Wormald - Historian who argued that Mary Queen of Scots was a monarch of 'little wit and no judgment'|date=31 May 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2019-01-26|page=29}}

Wormald taught at the University of Glasgow between 1966 and 1985, and then St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, between 1985 and 2005. She held a variety of other posts in this time, including Fellow Librarian and Senior Tutor at St Hilda's.{{cite web|title=Jenny Wormald, former Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Hilda's, has died.|url=http://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/jenny-wormald-former-fellow-and-tutor-modern-history-st-hildas-has-died|access-date=29 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205091144/http://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/jenny-wormald-former-fellow-and-tutor-modern-history-st-hildas-has-died|archive-date=5 February 2016}}

Her most important research was on bloodfeud in early modern Scotland, particularly in her article "Bloodfeud, Kindred and Government in Early Modern Scotland", which was highly influential.{{cite web|last1=Davison |first1=Phil |title=Dr Jenny Wormald|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/obituaries/14169980.Dr_Jenny_Wormald/?ref=ar|website=The Herald|date=28 December 2015 |location=Glasgow|access-date=29 December 2015}} Wormald also produced a study of the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was most recently an Honorary Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. Wormald was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on 30 November 2015.

Personal life

In 1963, Jennifer Tannahill married Alfred Lawson Brown. As Brown was a devout Roman Catholic, she converted to Catholicism when they married. They had one son and later divorced.{{cite news |last1=Heal |first1=Felicity |author-link=Felicity Heal |title=Jenny Wormald obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/29/jenny-wormald|access-date=8 February 2016|date=29 January 2016}} In 1980 she married the historian Patrick Wormald, and together they had two sons. They divorced in 2001.{{cite web|last1=Jack|first1=Sybil|title=Jenny Wormald Obituary|url=http://anzamems.org/?p=5524|website=Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies|date=19 December 2015 |access-date=29 December 2015}}

Death

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She died in Edinburgh on 9 December 2015. She is buried in Dean Cemetery on the south side of the main entrance path.

Select bibliography

"Bloodfeud, Kindred and Government in Early Modern Scotland", Past and Present, 87 (1980).
Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470–1625. Edward Arnold. 1981.
reprinted Edinburgh University Press. 1991.
"James VI and I: Two Kings or One?", History, 68 (1983).
"Gunpowder, Treason and Scots", Journal of British Studies, 24 (1985).
Lords and Men in Scotland: Bonds of Manrent, 1442-1603. John Donald. 1985.
Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure. George Philip. 1988.
2nd edition, as Mary Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost. George Philip. 2001.
(editor) Scotland Revisited. Collins & Brown. 1991.
(Editor & contributor), The Oxford Illustrated History of Scotland. Oxford University Press. 2005.