Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington 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 as a nurse during the war and qualified in 1946. From 1967–69, she chaired the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign, and then the Vice President of the British Cancer Council. In 1966, she was elected a Member of the City of London Court of Common Council, and
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