Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young man succeeded to his father's fishing business at Hythe. He was a member of the Hythe Life-boat Crew for many years, and was one of the Crew on llth November, 1891, when the Life-boat was launched to the Benvenue, of Glasgow, and capsized before she could get clear of the surf.

Of the twenty men on board the Life- boat, all but one got ashore ; the Life- boat, which was washed ashore, was launched again, and the twenty-seven survivors of the Benvenue's crew of thirty-two were rescued. In 1908 Mr.

Wright Griggs was appointed Second Coxswain. He had retired when, in 1917, the Life-boat was called out, at midnight, on the 1st April, to the ketch Mazeppa, of Harwich, but volunteered to take the place of tie Second Coxswain.

With great difficulty the two men on board the ketch were saved, and Cox- swain Dearman and Acting Second Coxswain Griggs were both awarded the Bronze Medal. Mr. Griggs also received a number of other awards for gallantry in saving life. The present Coxswain at Hythe, Henry Griggs, who holds the Institution's Silver Medal, is his son.

The Second Coxswain and Motor Mechanic are also his sons, and one of his nephews is a member of the Crew..