Coxswain Stephen Clayson, who died in July, 1937, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Margate life-boat for over seven years and coxswain for over twenty years. During that time the life-boats rescued 367 lives. He won the silver medal for gallantry in January, 1905, for the rescue, in a whole gale, of the crew of the ketch Malvoisin, of London, when he was acting coxswain. On his retirement in 1925 he was awarded a pension and a certificate of service..