Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.

BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management. General Lake was ap- pointed a member in 1916 and took a very active part in the work of the Committee until, on account of ad- vancing years, he resigned in 1926. He was not only a regular attendant at the monthly meetings of the Committee of Management, but served on no fewer than six of its Sub-Committees, and was Chairman of the Special Com- mittee which arranged the Life-boat House erected at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924, the Institution's centenary year. His never-failing courtesy and kindness brought him the affection as well as esteem, both of his colleagues on the Committee of Management, and of the staff of the Institution. When he retired the Committee showed its appreciation of his long and valued services by appointing him an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution. The Institution was represented at the funeral by the Secretary, Lieut.-Col.

C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E.

Mr. S. S. Jerrett, of New Brighton.

MR. S. S. JERRETT, of Liverpool and New Brighton, who died on the 9th November last, at the age of seventy- four, was for over thirty years associ- ated with the Life-boat Station at New Brighton. The son of a sea-captain, he was connected for fifty-nine years with the shipping firm of Messrs. Goodyear, in which he became a partner, and for some years served as one of the com- mercial assessors to the Admiralty Court, so that he brought to the work of the New Brighton Station a wide experience of the mercantile marine.

He became a member of the Branch Committee in 1901, and its Chairman in 1903, a position which he held until his death. He was also for a number of years a member of the Committee of the Port of Liverpool Branch. As some small mark of the Institution's gratitude for his many services, he was presented with inscribed Binoculars in 1912, and in 1920 with the Institution's Gold Badge, which is given only for dis- tinguished honorary work for the Life-boat Service.

Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby* A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for thirty years, and while she was very generous in her help to many charities, her chief interest was the welfare of the Tenby Life-boat crew. She was for twenty years a member of the Tenby Committee, as well as a generous subscriber. She took also a deep interest in the work of the Norwegian Life-boat Service. For more than forty years she regularly visited Svolvaer in the Lofoten Islands, one of the centres of the great cod fisheries, and won the esteem of the whole population by her philanthropic work among the families of the fisher- men. In 1897 she presented to the Norwegian Life-boat Society the Life-boat Svolvaer, which is still on service. For her distinguished and unselfish work for life-boatmen she was awarded a Gold Medal by the King of Norway and the Gold Badge of the Institution. At the funeral the In- stitution was represented by Com- mander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chief Inspector of Life-boats, the Norwegian Government by the Secretary of its Legation in London, and the Tenby Life-boat Station by its Coxswain and ex-Coxswain..