Ix November 1891, Mr. B. J. New- combe was elected a member of the committee of the Howth, Dublin, life-boat station. Eight years later, in January 1900, he was appointed honorary secretary. He served in that office for forty-five years, retir- ing on account of his age, on the 31st of December, 1945. He is still a member of the committee, sixty-one years since he first joined it.

Mr. Newcombe worked for the Life- boat Service under ten district in- spectors and seven chairmen of the Howth branch. He was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in 1910, its inscribed aneroid barometer, in 1934, and its thanks on vellum when he retired from the honorary secretaryship at the end of 1945..