By the death of Lady Sheffield on 4th January, has passed away, at the age of eighty, one of the oldest and most generous of the Institution's workers in the north of England, and one who will be remembered with gratitude not only for her Life-boat work, but for the active interest which she took in many public causes. Lady Sheffield became Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Manchester, Salford and District Branch in 1911, and then, when this Auxiliary became a Ladies' Life-boat Guild, she continued as Honorary Secretary of the Guild until her death. In 1921 she was presented with the Gold Brooch, which is given only in gratitude for long and exceptional services.

Lady Sheffield was a daughter of Sir Lowthian Bell, of Durham, and married Lord Sheffield in 1873. She was awarded the C.B.E. for her services in the War, and Manchester University, with which she was at one time actively associated, conferred on her the degree of LL.D. She has been succeeded as Honorary Secretary of the Manchester, Salford and District Ladies' Life-boat Guild by her daughter-in-law, Lady Stanley of Alderley..