By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He had been a keen yachtsman, had served on the Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee, and for forty-five years was a Station Honorary Secretary, first of Penzance and Sennen Cove, then, from 1908 to 1913, of Penzance, Newlyn and Sennen Cove, and, since 1913, of Sennen Cove only. In spite of his many municipal and public duties both as Town Clerk and in the other offices he held, Colonel Cornish found time to take a very active part in the work of the Life- boat Stations, and during his years of office they rescued 285 lives. Colonel Cornish was a man of great influence and wide popularity, and the Institu- tion was very fortunate in having him as its Honorary Secretary at these important Stations. He received three awards from the Institution as marks of its gratitude and appreciation—in 1896 Inscribed Binoculars, in 1907 the Institution's Decoration, and in 1913 the Gold Cross. The last two awards are now no longer made, having been replaced by the Gold Badge and the Honorary Life-Governorship..