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The Viscount Grey of Fallodon: A Correction

IN the obituary notice of the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that his last public appearance on behalf of the Institution was at the inaugural ceremony of the Boulmer motor life-boat in 1931. This was in- correct. Lord Grey was present and spoke at a meeting of the Alnwick branch on 20th February last, less than seven months before his death, at which the Duke of Northumberland presented the Institution's bronze medal awarded to Coxswain Bartholo- mew Stanton, of Boulmer, for the rescue on 22nd November, 1932, of three men from the steam-trawler Guillemot..