AMONG the names of honorary workers to whom awards have been made this year is Mrs. Ellen Surman, who for twenty-seven years has been an honorary worker at Neath, Glamorganshire.

In accepting the reward, Mrs. Surman reminded the Institution that she was one of the children made orphans by the capsizing of the life-boat of The Mumbles on 27th January, 1883, when four of her crew lost their lives. All her family were members of the crew.

Her grandfather had been coxswain, and of the four men who lost their lives in this disaster one was her father, the bowman, and two were her uncles, the second-coxswain and a member of the crew.