THE LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I, P.C., who died in January, 1947, at the age of eighty-six, after an astonishingly full life of public service, had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1926, and was appointed a vice-president of the Institution in 1930. For thirty-four years he had been the chairman and honorary treasurer of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, and the Margate lifeboat (one of seven life-boats now on the coast which have been built and endowed by the fund) is named after him. He took a close and personal interest in the fund's work, and when he was dying he was in correspondence with Mr. Winston Churchill, whose name he was most anxious should be given to the new Civil Service boat now being built for Blyth. That was, he said, "his final act" for the Civil Service Life-boat Fund.