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
Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be? exaggerates one common trait (one so thin she falls through a knot-hole). Suggested alternate lyrics include: <poem> Oh, dear, what can the matter be, Six old maids were stuck in the lavat'ry, They were there from Sunday till Saturday, Nobody knew they were there The first one in was fat lady Humphreys - squeezed herself down and she said "it's quite comfy" but when she was through she could not get her bum free – and nobody knew she was there. Refrain The next one there was old lady Grayson – she couldn't get in so she peed in the