MRS. EDITH MA.NBY MRS. EDITH MANBY of Codsall, Staf- fordshire, died in February, 1951, at the age of nearly 86. For almost fifty years she had been an active life-boat worker in the Codsall area, and for some years was president of the Codsall district branch. In April, 1935, Mrs. Manby began the work of knitting woollen scarf helmets for all the life-boat crews of the Institution.

She had the help of 491 knitters and subscribers, and the work cost £1,250, of which she herself contributed over £100. The work was finished on New Year's Day, 1936. Mrs. Manby and her party had then knitted 1,525 helmets, and the wool used weighed a quarter of a ton. In 1937, she was awarded the Institution's gold badge for her distinguished honorary service.

She gave up working for the Life-boat Service, on account of her age, only a few years before her death- Mrs. Manby was a relative of Cap- tain G. W. Manby who over a century ago was awarded the gold medal of the Institution for the life-saving appara- tus which he invented for rescuing shipwrecked people from the shore.

SIR CHARLES McRAE SIR CHARLES McRAE, Sheriff of London in 1936-37, and a member of the Coal Exchange, died on the 19th of June, 1951, at the age of 76. He was for many years an active member of the Institution's City of London Branch.

He joined its committee in 1927, was chairman from 1935 to 1946, and con- tinued to serve on the committee until his death. In 1947 he was appointed an honorary life-governor of the Insti- tution, the highest honour which it can give to an honorary worker.

CAPTAIN KELGWIN, OF SHOREHAM CAPTAIN C. T. KELGWIN, R.D., R.N.R. the honorary secretary of the Shoreham Harbour station, died in October, 1951, at the age of 74. He had been honorary secretary since December, 1936, and in 1949 was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars, in gratitude for his services.

LIEUT.-COLONEL E. V. HUGO, OF RICHMOND LIEUT. - COLONEL EDWARD VICTOR HUGO, who died on Christmas Eve, 1951, at the age of 86, had devoted himself for many years to the work of the Richmond and Kew branch of the Institution. He became honorary treasurer in 1929, and besides doing the treasurer's work he was indefatig- able in organising the appeals of the branch. He held the post for 21 years, and in 1950 became the presi- dent of the branch. In 1951 he was awarded the gold badge, given only for long and distinguished honorary service.

MR. WILLIAM STANTON, OF BOULMER MR. WILLIAM STANTON, of Boulmer, who died on the 3rd of January, 1952, at the age of 55, came of a family which has played a long and active part in the history of the Boulmer station. At one time Stantons and Stephensons made up the greater part of the crew. Mr. William Stanton be- came the honorary secretary in 1935, and in 1948 he was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in gratitude for his services. He often went out in the life-boat as one of the crew, and last year, very soon after leaving hospital, where he had had an operation, he took command when the coxswain and most of the crew were at sea, collected a scratch crew and stayed out for two hours search- ing for an aeroplane. His son is the motor mechanic of the Boulmer life-boat..