MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.

He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New Romney, was appointed second coxswain in 1895, and coxswain the following year. As coxswain he served for nearly fourteen years, re- tiring at the end of 1909, on account of ill-health. During the forty years since his retirement he has been an annuitant of the Institution. He was a member of the New Romney crew of eleven men, all coastguards, who went out in very heavy weather in the life-boat Sandal Magna on the 9th of March, 1891. Two of the men were washed overboard and one of them was drowned. Then the life- boat capsized and two more men lost their lives.

On his birthday, Mr. Furber was presented with an illuminated address by Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, Second Sea Lord, and received telegrams of congratulation from the King, the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr. Winston Churchill, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Tovey and the Institution..