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Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa

BY the death on 20th November, at the of seventy-seven, of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished vice-presidents. Lord Jellicoe became a member of the committee of manage- ment in 1918, at the end of the Great War, and was appointed a vice- president in 1921 ; and each year since 1919 his name has appeared among the admirals on the committee who have signed the annual appeal of the Life- boat Service to the officers and men of the Navy..