MR. PERCEVAL FARRANT, who died on 13th March, 1947, was one of the most successful organizing secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. He was in its service for thirty-seven years, and for twenty-eight years of that time he •was responsible for the whole of the South-Western District from Berkshire to Land's End. He had the gift of communicating to others his own deep interest in the work, and hundreds of honorary workers in his district will share with his colleagues at the Institution in grief for his death and admiration for his work. In the five years before his appointment to the South-West of England, the district's average contribution was under £7,000.

In his first complete year of work he increased it to nearly £11,000. In his last year it was over £26,000, and in its record year, 1944, it was over £33,000.

Those figures speak for themselves of the success of his -work. He continued it through a long and painful illness, and did not give it up until almost the end.