BY the death last November, at the age of 83, of Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station which the Institu- tion has maintained at Blakeney, Norfolk, since 1862, the Institution has lost a valued honorary official who has worked for it for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr. Temple-Lynes was the last link with the days when Blakeney was a thriving port, and he and his father before him had owned several ships trading with Newcastle and Hull.

He was the last of the merchants of Blakeney, and the only surviving mem- ber of the Blakeney Harbour Com- missioners Company, of which he was Clerk from 1859 to 1877. In that year, owing to the decline of Blakeney's maritime trade, he took to farming.

He became Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station in 1903, and in 1913 was presented with a Binocular Glass, inscribed with the Institution's thanks for his services.

He was a man of many public activities—Chairman of the Holt bench of magistrates, Vice-Chairman of the Walsingham Board of Guardians for over twenty years, and a member of the District Council. He showed his interest in the sea not only by his work for the Institution, but by repre- senting locally the Shipwrecked Mariners Society and the Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamens' Institution.