Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, a member of the Committee of Management and the Chairman of the Nottingham and District Branch, died on 30th January last, and the Committee deeply regret i the loss of a most valued colleague. Mr.

Lancashire was Chairman of one of the big hosiery manufacturing firms of Nottingham and had been connected with that industry all his life. He was Chairman of the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce in 1923, and at the time of his death Chairman of the National Federation of Hosiery Trade Manufacturers.

He took an active part in the work of recruiting during the War, and in the War Savings Movement, and for years was Chairman of the Nottingham War Pensions Committee. He travelled extensively, visiting Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other parts of the world. Mr. Lancashire became Chairman of the Nottingham and District Branch in 1915, and when he accepted the Institution's invitation to become a member of the Committee of Management in 1918, he brought to it a wide and ripe experience of men and affairs. The Nottingham Branch, of which he was Chairman, is one of the best organized and most generous of the Institution's inland Branches.

Besides the regular contribution which for many years it has made to the Institution, the Branch raised a special fund of over £5,000 as a Centenary Gift to the Service, and this sum is providing the Motor Life-boat which is to be built for Folkestone. The success of the fund was largely due not only to Mr. Lancashire's interest and advocacy, but to his personal and very generous help.

No one could be associated with him without recognizing at once that he was a man of very wide interests and humane and generous ideals. He felt that his j position as an industrialist and employer of labour was a high and serious trust, and the Institution is fortunate that for so many years a man of Mr. Lancashire's energy, experience and ideals should have been so closely associated with its work in the Midlands..