John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington war in 1945. He served in the military government of Schleswig-Holstein, and was demobbed as a lieutenant-colonel aged 25. He married Dorothy Mary Warwick (later known as Dame Mary Donaldson), in 1945, having met her at Middlesex Hospital where she was working as a nurse. She later became the first woman to be a Member of the City of London Court of Common Council, the first female Alderman, the first female Sheriff and, finally, in 1983, the first female Lord Mayor of London. Together, they had two daughters and a son; his wife predeceased him in October 2003. Donaldson was
Cam Donaldson (a major charitable funder in the UK) announced a national competition for a Chair in Health Economics. Any university applying had to team up with a named candidate. Donaldson's colleagues (particularly Professors John and Senga Bond) at Newcastle invited him to be their candidate, and together they won the funding of £3m. What made Donaldson equally proud, however, was that three of the candidates who made it through to the final five were PhD students of Mooney. At Newcastle, as well as building another significant group of health economists, Donaldson became the inaugural Director of the Institute of Health and