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
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