THE EARL OF HOME LIEUT.-COL. THE EARL OF HOME died on the llth of July, 1951, at the age of 77. He had been a vice-president of the Institution since 1923. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Life-boat" Council at its inception in 1945, and served on the committee until 1948, when he resigned.

MR. WALTER RIGGS, M.B.E., OF ALDEBURGH MR. WALTER RIGGS, M.B.E., M.I.E.E., who died on the 10th of November, 1951, at the aged of 74, had given many years to the Life-boat Service.

From 1924 until his death he was the honorary secretary of the station at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. He became a member of the Committee of Manage- ment in September, 1932, and served on the boat and construction com- mittees, the establishment committee, the wreck and rewards committee, the general purposes and publicity com- mittee, and various sub-committees.

In March, 1951, he resigned from the Committee of Management, on account of ill health, but he continued to be honorary secretary of the Aldeburgh station until his death. It was in recognition of his devoted work for the Life-boat Service that he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1941.

SIR HAROLD PINK, OF PORTSMOUTH SIR HAROLD PINK, J.P., a freeman and alderman of the City of Ports- mouth, three times its Mayor, and once its Lord Mayor, died on the 3rd of January at the age of 93. As Mayor for the third time, in 1917 and 1918, he was president of the Portsmouth branch of the Institution, and in 1919 he became its chairman. In 1934, when he was Lord Mayor, he became its president as well as chairman, and from July, 1940, until the end of the war he acted also as its honorary secretary. He was chairman until his death. In 1939 he was awarded the Institution's gold badge, given only for long and distinguished honor- ary services. In 1942 he was appointed an honorary life-governor, the highest honour which the Institution can give to an honorary worker. In 1944 he was appointed a vice-president of the Institution. It is an appoint- ment made by the Committee of Management only when they feel that something is still due to an honorary worker—even after the bestowal of the highest honour, and it has been made for that reason only once before.

Sir Harold Pink left £200 to the Institution.

ADMIRAL SIR ARTHUR DUFF, K.C.B.

ADMIRAL SIR ARTHUR ALLEN MORISON DUFF, K.C.B., who died on the 5th of April, 1952, at the age of 77, became an ex-officio member of the Commit- tee of Management in 1927, when he was appointed Admiral Commanding Reserves, and remained on the Com- mittee when that command ended in 1929. From 1929 until 1946 he was a member of the boat committee, and its vice-chairman for fifteen years. In 1950 he was appointed a vice-president of the Institution in recognition of his services to it..