Lady Baring.

ALL associated with the Institution will join in sympathy with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the committee of management, in his sorrow at the death of Lady Baring, on 9th June, after a long illness. Lady Baring herself for many years took a generous and active part in the work of the Institution, 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' Lifeboat 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, vicepresident 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.

The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair.

The Most Hon. the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, P.C., K.T., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., who died on 7th March,1934, at the age of eighty-six, had been a vice-president of the Institution for fourteen years and was patron of the Aberdeen branch. His kindly interest, as Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeen, in the work of the life-boat stations on the Aberdeen coast, where he attended the inaugural ceremonies of the present motor life-boats at Aberdeen and Peterhead, will be very much missed. Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer.

Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.

He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he retired another Stephenson succeeded him. He was appointed bowman in 1890, second coxswain in 1897, and coxswain in 1898, retiring in 1922, so that he had served as an officer of the boat for thirty-two years, and for over twenty-four years he was coxswain.

During those thirty-two years the Alnmouth and Boulmer life-boats, which are manned by the same crew, rescued 132 lives. In 1913 Coxswain Stephenson won the silver medal for the rescue of twenty-five of the crew of thirty of the steam-trawler Tadorne, of Boulogne. She lay surrounded by rocks, with her decks awash, heavy seas rolling over her, and the crew in the rigging so numbed with cold (two, in fact, had already died of exposure) that, when the life-boat came alongside, they were almost powerless to help themselves. In addition to the Institution's silver medal, Coxswain William Stephenson was awarded for the service a gold medal by the French Government and a medal by the Societe des Hospitallers Sauveteurs Bretons. When he retired he received a pension and the coxswain's certificate of service.

Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough.

Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough, who died on 28th February, just before his seventieth birthday, served as an officer of the Flamborough life-boats for thirty-one years. From 1900 to 1911 he was second coxswain of the No. 2 life-boat, and from 1911 to 1931 he was coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat. During his thirty-one years of service the station rescued 167 lives. In 1930 he received the lhanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of the crew of sixteen men of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa which had gone ashore at night in a fog right under the cliffs.

In the darkness, with heavy seas continually sweeping over the wreck and the life-boat, the work of rescue was very difficult and dangerous.

When he retired in 1931, Coxswain Chadwick was awarded a pension and a certificate of service.

Alderman A. H. Drinkwater, J.P., of Coventry.

By the death on 21st August, at the age of eighty-three, of Alderman A. H.

Drinkwater, three times Mayor of Coventry, an honorary freeman of the city, and a man who devoted himself whole-heartedly to public and philanthropic work, the Institution has lost one of its oldest friends. He had worked for it for over thirty years. In 1903 he became chairman of the Coventry branch, and held that position until 1929. He then resigned, owing to his age, but his interest in the branch continued and he held the special position of honorary chairman until his death. He was awarded the gold badge in 1921, and a silver inkstand in 1927. Two years later he was appointed an honorary life-governor, the highest distinction which the Institution can bestow on an honorary worker, and given only in recognition of long and exceptional services. During the twenty-seven years of his chairmanship the Coventry branch raised over £10,000.

Mr. John Lewis, of Holyhead.

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, philanthropic 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 Institution inscribed on vellum. During his thirty-two years as honorary secretary the Holyhead life-boats rescued 239 lives.

Mr. John H. Amos, of Middlesbrough.

Mr. John H. Amos, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, who died on 12th June, at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty years an honorary official of the Middlesbrough branch. He became its honorary treasurer in 1911, and its honorary secretary in 1919. In 1929 he was awarded the gold badge of the Institution which is given only for distinguished honorary work for the life-boat service. He retired in 1931.

Mr. Amos was for forty-four 'years the secretary and general manager of the Tees Conservancy Commission, and was an example of the busy public servant who in the midst of his many duties found time to give much thought and care to his honorary work for the life-boat service.

Mrs. Finch, of Chelmsford.

By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelmsford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs. Finch became the honorary secretary of the Chelmsford branch in 1924. Previous to her appointment, although there had been occasional life-boat days, there had been no regular branch. She collected subscriptions, organized life-boat days and whist drives, and in nine years raised £936. In 1928 she was awarded the gold badge. In 1931, while on holiday in Bournemouth, she fractured her thigh, but the following year, although unable to travel alone, she insisted on returning to Chelmsford to arrange the work of the branch, organized life-boat day, and later returned again to Chelmsford to carry the day through, organize a whist drive and find a successor as honorary secretary. Not until then did she give up her work in Chelmsford. She then settled in Boscombe, where she at once found work to do for the Bournemouth and Christchurch branch. She organized depots for Bournemouth life-boat day in 1932 and 1933 and was working for life-boat day this year when she was taken ill and died. Her ten years of work have been an example of generous and unselfish devotion to the life-boat service.

Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe.

Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe, who died on 1st June, at the age of forty-six, had been joint honorary secretary of the Hythe life-boat station for three years, and in that short time had made himself of great value to the station, in which he took the keenest interest.

He went out in the life-boat both on practice and service launches; was largely instrumental in providing the life-boat with a wireless set, which was designed and made locally; acted as wireless operator on board; and in both the work and social life of the station took a very active and generous part which made him a most popular and valuable honorary secretary, whose help will be greatly missed..