By the death on 26th October, at the age of seventy-nine, of Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, J.P., president of the Colwyn Bay branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most distinguished honorary workers. For many years he worked in Manchester for the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and when that fund was taken over by the Institution in 1911 he was awarded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum. When he retired from business and settled in Colwyn Bay he took up the reorganization of its branch, and became its honorary secretary in 1912.

When he went to Colwyn Bay the branch was contributing under £50 a year. Last year it contributed £278.

During Mr. Purdy's association with it, it collected over £8,000. He became its president in 1931. In 1920 he was awarded the Institution's gold badge, and in 1929 he was appointed an honorary life-governor, the highest distinction which the Institution can confer on an honorary worker. In 1934 Mrs. Purdy also was awarded the gold badge. Mr. Purdy did much other public and charitable work, and was an alderman of the Denbighshire County Council and a Justice of the Peace..