Dorothy Mary Warwick, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, GBE DStJ, better known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first, and to date the only, female Lord Mayor of London. The daughter of an ironmonger and a school teacher, Donaldson worked as a nurse. She was elected a member of the City of London Court of Common Council in 1966, and became the first female alderman in 1975, the first female Sheriff of the City of London in 1981 and in 1983 the first female Lord Mayor. She chaired the Interim Licensing Authority for Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryology and was a member of the Press Complaints Commission 1991-95. Wikipedia [ - ]

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