Born at Wickham, Hampshire,[1] the daughter of an ironmonger and a school teacher, Donaldson trained as a nurse during the war and qualified in 1946.
Personally, I find it difficult not to become over-involved in issues concerning people", Donaldson once commented.
[1]Donaldson chaired the Interim Licensing Authority for Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryology (see Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) from 1985 and then was a member of the Press Complaints Commission from 1991 to 1996.
[2] She remained the only female Lord Mayor of the City of London until the election of Fiona Woolf in 2013.
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