THE Committee of Management have lost a very active member by the sud- den death, on the 6th of July, at the age of 66, of Mr. Linton • Thorp, K.C., LL.B., J.P., Recorder of Saffron Walden and Maldon, and at one time a judge in Egypt and Member of Parliament for Nelson and Colne. Mr.

Thorp was co-opted to the Committee of Management in 1948, served on the General Purposes and Publicity Com- mittee and the Boat and Construction Committee. On more than one occa- sion he gave the Institution valuable advice and help with complicated legal matters.

His last service to the Institution, only five weeks before his death, was to represent the Committee of Management in the party which went in the Margate lifeboat on the pil- grimage to Dunkirk..