Nationality British | Name Jenny Wormald | |
Full Name Jennifer Mary Tannahill Spouse(s) A.L. BrownPatrick Wormald (div. 2001) Children 3 sons, Andrew, Tom and Luke Awards Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Books Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure, Lords and men in Scotland, Court, kirk and community, Maria Stuart Employer | ||
Jenny Wormald, HonFSA Scot (18 January 1942 – 9 December 2015) was a Scottish historian who studied late medieval and early modern Scotland.
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Early life and education
Jennifer Tannahill was born in Glasgow in 1942, the daughter of the well loved General Practitioner Dr. Thomas Tannahill, and his wife Margaret, (née Dunlop). Wormald read history at the University of Glasgow, where she completed a PhD thesis on the history of the late medieval Scottish nobility through analysis of a kind of document known as a bond of manrent.
Academic career
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.
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. 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. Dr Wormald was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on 30 November 2015.
Personal life
In 1964, Wormald married A. L. Brown. As Brown was a devout Roman Catholic, she converted to Catholicism upon their marriage. They had one son and later divorced. She was then married to the historian Patrick Wormald from 1974 to 2001. Together, they had two sons. The marriage ended in divorce.