THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years. During four years of this period he served as a District-Inspector of Life- boats, and for the remaining ten years as Chief Inspector of Life-boats. The gallant Captain was born on the 8th October, 1829, and was therefore in his sixty-fifth year when he died. He was the third son of Richard Walter, 6th Viscount Chetwynd, and brother of the present peer. Having entered the Navy at the usual age, he obtained a Lieutenant's commission in 1850. At the outbreak of the Russian War he joined the Sphinx as First Lieutenant, and in that vessel served both in the Baltic, where he was present at the bombardment of Bomar- sund, and in the Black Sea, where he shared in the attack on the sea-front of Sebastopol. He was afterwards First Lieutenant of the Ariadne, in the West Indies, and subsequently commanded another ship on the same station. In 1862 ho attained the rank of a Com- mander, and became Divisional Inspecting Officer of Coastguard at Cromer and at Mundesley, Norfolk, and in 1869 he took command of the Winchester, the Naval Reserve drill ship stationed at: Aberdeen.

In 1873 he retired from the Navy with the rank of Captain, joining the Life- boat Service, as already stated, in 1879.