Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington the only female Lord Mayor of the City of London until the election of Fiona Woolf in 2013. Donaldson was the wife of John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, who was Master of the Rolls (1982–92); they married in 1945 and had two daughters and a son. Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington Dorothy Mary Donaldson, The Lady Donaldson of Lymington, (née Warwick, 29 August 1921 – 4 October 2003), previously known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first female Lord Mayor of London (1983–84). Born at Wickham, Hampshire, the daughter of an ironmonger and a school teacher, Donaldson trained
Emma, Lady Radford West. Her other research included studies into Sir Francis Drake's birthplace, and contributions to the "Dictionary of National Biography," mostly relating to Devon clockmakers (she was also a collector of Plymouth porcelain and wrote elsewhere on that subject). A member of the Devonshire Association from 1888 until her death, she was the first woman to be elected the Association's President, in 1928. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was the first Devon woman to be elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. While in London, Lady Radford sat on the Kingston-upon-Thames Board