Mr. John Lewis, of Holyhead, died on 10th March, at the age of sixty-four, only two months after he had been compelled to retire from the honorary secretaryship of the Holyhead life-boat station on account of ill-health. He had held that position for thirty-two years, and besides his life-boat work, had done much other public, philan- thropic and religious work. He held many offices in the Wesleyan Church, took an active part in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, and for three years sat on the County Council.

In recognition of his long and valuable work as honorary secretary of an important life-boat station he was awarded a binocular glass in 1912, an aneroid barometer in 1933 and, on his retirement, the thanks of the Insti- tution inscribed on vellum. During his thirty-two years as honorary secretary the Holyhead life-boats rescued 239 lives.