The Institution has been so unfortunate as to lose two of its members by death within a few days of one another, Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus.

Lord Brownlow, who became a member of the Committee in 1924, died on 19th April last in his 60th year.

His connection with the Institution went back many years earlier to the time when, as Major Cockayne Oust, he was the Organizing Secretary for Greater London.

Educated at Eton, he entered the Army in 1888, served in the Somerset Light Infantry, and retired in 1908.

He was for a time an organizer and speaker for the National Service League, when Mr. George F. Shee, the present Secretary of the Institution, was Secretary of the League, and in 1911 he entered the service of the Institution.

He did not resign from it until November, 1918, but his Life-boat work actually ceased when, on the outbreak of war, he again joined the Army, serving in France and Belgium.

After the War he worked foi two years in the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and on the death of his cousin the Earl Brownlow in 1921, he succeeded to the Barony, the Earldom becoming extinct. He brought to the work of organizing the Institution's appeals in London great energy, exceptional gifts as a speaker, and a breeziness of manner which were characteristic of all that he did, and which will always be a very pleasant memory to his colleagues on the Committee and Staff.

The Institution was represented at the memorial service, held in London, by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management, and (in the absence of Mr. George F. Shee, the Secretary, who was abroad) by Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., the Deputy Secretary..