sentences:  After a short while as a curate at Bethnal Green he was a domestic chaplain to archbishop Benson from 1888 to 1891.In 1891 Donaldson became vicar of St Mary's, Hackney Wick, and was head of the Eton mission until 1900.He was in November 1901 appointed Rector of Hornsey, and in October the following year also as Rural Dean of Hornsey, serving from 1902 to 1904.