IN the old church of Prestwich, Lanca- shire, Sir EDWARD TOOTALBROADHURST, Bt., D.L., J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Branch, was laid to rest on the 6th February last, and a crowded congregation testi- fied to the high esteem in which he was held in Manchester and Lancashire.

Born in 1858 at Prestwich, Sir Edward received his education at Wimbledon and Winchester. He was Chairman of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, a Director of the London and North Western Railway, and was closely identified with the many activities of Lancashire life. Yet he still found time to be actively associated with philanthropic work. His service as Chairman, for many years, of the former .Manchester and Salford " Life- boat Saturday Fund " will long be remembered, and his able advocacy i and whole-hearted zeal as Honorary Secretary of our Manchester Branch won him the gratitude of all who are connected with the Life-boat Service, i His death leaves the Institution the j poorer, but grateful that it had the benefit of his generous help.

We also have to record with great ; regret the loss of another very old | Lancashire friend of the Institution by the death, last November, of Mr. P. J.

RAMSAY, J.P., the former Managing Director of the Manchester and Liver- pool District Bank. Mr. Ramsay played j a leading part in the formation of the Saturday Life-boat Fund, and was always a whole-hearted supporter of the Life-boat Cause. One of his last kind- nesses to the Institution was to obtain for it from the estate of the late Miss Margaret Gerard a gift of £1,280..