Miss Alice J. Phillips, who died on 5th February last, had been honorary secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch for nearly thirty years, first under the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and since the organization of the Fund was taken over by the Institution in 1911, as the Institution's honorary secretary. During the twenty-four years since then she collected £2,211.

In 1921 she was awarded the life-boat picture and at the beginning of this year the gold badge which is given only for distinguished honorary service..