ALL associated with the Institution will join in sympathy with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the com- mittee of management, in his sorrow at the death of Lady Baring, on 9th June, after a long illness. Lady Baring her- self for many years took a generous and active part in the work of the Insti- tution, finding time for it in the midst of much other public and charitable work.

She was a member at one time of the London women's committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and of the publicity committee of the Institution, and was president of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild at West Cowes.

In 1925 she was awarded the gold badge of the Institution which is given only for distinguished honorary service.

During the war Lady Baring was commandant of the Red Cross Hospital at North wood House, in Cowes. She was chairman of the Isle of Wight County Nursing Association, vice- president of the Cowes and District Nursing Association, vice-chairman of the National Training College of Domestic Subjects, and a county commissioner of the Girl Guides. She was, for a number of years, a member of the Isle of Wight county education committee, and was the first woman in the Isle of Wight to be appointed a justice of the peace. Her death is a grief to many public causes to which she gave her help, and not least to the Life-boat Service with which, through her own and Sir Godfrey Baring's work, she had been closely associated for over twenty years.