WE regret to announce the death, #t the ripe age of ninety years, of the Rev. Chancellor Owen LI. Williams, of Llanrhyddlad Rectory, Cemlyn, Angle- sey, a Life-boat Station with which the reverend gentleman had been closely and honourably connected throughout a long and active life. In March, 1822, his grandfather saw the sailing packet Hart, with passengers from Howth to Park- gate, driven by the tide on a rock near Westmouse, and 140 lives were lost in the disaster. Mrs. Williams then de- cided to start a fund to place Life-boats on the Anglesey Coast. In a letter written by Chancellor Williams in December, 1913, he wrote: "When about five or six years old I used to be playing about the rocks continually.

When older I was often fishing and down on the shore between two and three o'clock in the winter mornings, waiting for the men to go out to take up herring nets, and thereby getting a knowledge of the tides. When about twenty I had charge of the Life-boat.

(The Life-boat Station was established in 1828.) I feel I have been most for- tunate in never having had a hitch or accident during the time—nearly fifty years—-I had charge of the Life-boats, and have always received kindness and consideration from the London Committee." In 1824 he went out on a very dark night in a raging gale off the Anglesey Coast and saved twenty-four lives, and in 1862 he rescued another thirty-four men off the Carnarvon Coast. He received the Silver Medal of the Insti- tution for the rescue of the crew of the Kenilworth and, later on, a second clasp | for the Silver Medal and a pair of silver- mounted Binoculars for a twenty-four hours' vigil off St. Patrick's, Conway.

He received several other testimonials for Life-boat Services, including a gold watch and chain from sea-faring men on the Welsh Coast.

It will be seen that Chancellor Williams' death removes a link with the earliest history of the Anglesey Life-boats, and we have parted with another good old friend who has " Crossed the Bar " after many a battle with gale and storm.