LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that he gave up the honorary secretaryship, at the same time that he retired from the post of chief constable of the Isle of Man, which he had held for twenty-five years. Colonel Madoc found time, among his many official duties, to control for the Institution a life-boat station which was also an important financial branch. During the last year of his honorary secretaryship Douglas contributed over £600. In recognition of his many services to the Institution, Colonel Madoc was awarded its in- scribed binoculars in 1925 and its gold badge in 1932. On his retirement he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum..