Captain John Williams, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., who died on 6th December, 1937, at the age of seventy-two, had been the Institution's honorary sec- retary and treasurer at Aberdovey since 1925, first of the station, and, when it was closed in 1931, of the financial branch. Though Aberdovcy is only a village, Captain Williams collected £1,066 during those thirteen years. He had been a sea captain and a pilot for many years, was Lloyd's agent, and long before he became honorary secretary of the station had served in the Aberdovey life-boat crew.

In 1931 he was awarded the Institu- tion's gold badge, and in 1936 he was appointed an honorary life-governor, the highest honour which the Institu- tion can give to an honorary worker..