By the death of Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer, on 28th January, at the age of sixty-five, the Institution has lost one of its most trusted and valued honorary secretaries. As the honorary secretary at Cromer, Mr. Barclay was in charge of one of the most important stations on the coast, a station with two life-boats, which, in recent years, has been more prominent in life-saving than any other. Mr. Barclay became the honorary secretary in 1908, so that he held the post for twenty-six years.

During that time the Cromer life-boats rescued 302 lives, and Cromer life- boatmen won two gold, four silver, and twenty-five bronze medals, and thirty thanks of the Institution on vellum for their gallantry.

Mr. Barclay himself was awarded an inscribed barometer in 1919, and inscribed binoculars last year. He was also specially thanked last year for his services in connexion with the rescue of the crew of two men of the barge Sepoy in December, 1933.In addition to the management of the station, Mr. Barclay was very successful in collecting funds for the Institution. Last year Cromer's con- tribution reached the record figure of £717, and during the past ten years it has averaged over £480. Mr. Barclay carried on his work for the Institution in the midst of much other important public work. He was a Justice of the Peace. For thirty years he was a member of the Urban District Council and the Cromer Commissioners. He was actively associated with many other charities. His death is a great loss to Cromer, as it is to the Institution, and none will miss him more than the Cromer life-boat crew, to whom he was a trusted friend.