MR. C. S. CLAYTON of the firm of Messrs.

Clayton, Leach, Sims & Co., died on the 19th of April, 1951, three and a half months after he had retired from it.

He had then been a partner in the firm for fifty-two years, and the firm have been the Institution's solicitors for ninety years—from 1860 to 1867 as John Clayton & Son, from 1868 to 1879 as Clayton & Sons, from 1880 to 1949 as Clayton, Sons & Fargus, and since then as Clayton, Leach, Sims & Co. Mr. F. H. Clayton, O.B.E., Mr.

C. S. Clayton's brother, is still a member of the firm and so too is one of their nephews..