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
John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington the civil division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, where he pushed forward modernisation efforts, including the introduction of skeleton arguments in civil appeals, judgments being "handed down" rather than read, and enhanced case management. Donaldson decided in "O'Kelly v. Trusthouse Forte plc" [1983] ICR 728, Donaldson's early reforms would later be overtaken by the Civil Procedure Rules introduced by a later Master of the Rolls, Lord Woolf. In 1988 he was elevated to the House of Lords as a Life Peer: Baron Donaldson of Lymington, of Lymington in the County of Hampshire. In his various roles,