THE DUKE OF MONTROSE has been com- pelled by ill-health to give up the work which, for many years, he has done for the Life-boat Service, as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution and its treasurer, and as chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.

As Marquis of Graham he was elected a member of the Committee of Manage- ment about 1907. He resigned in 1910. In 1924 he was appointed a vice-president of the Institution, and as such he again became a member of the Committee of Management. In 1927 his active work for the Service began, and it has continued for over a quarter of a century. It was in that year, largely through him, that the Institution held a conference in Scot- land, at which it was decided to form a Scottish Life-boat Council. The Duke was elected its chairman. He has been its chairman ever since. The measure of the success of his work is in two figures. In 1927 the year in which the council was formed, Scotland contri- buted to the Life-boat Service £11,858.

In 1952 she contributed £47,556.

The Duke was a very active chair- man of the Council, presiding at all its meetings, visiting the Scottish branches, attending their meetings, and taking a personal part in many of their other functions. He also took an active part in the work of the Committee of Management, made a broadcast for the Service in the "Week's Good Cause" in 1946, attend- ed the Fifth International Life-boat Conference held in Oslo in 1947, and from 1947, until he resigned in Decem- ber 1952, was the Institution's trea- surer. Though he has now been com- pelled to give up his active life-boat work, he remains a vice-president of the Institution, and at the meeting of the Scottish Council in April, 1953, at which his resignation as its chair- man was very regretfully accepted, he was elected the Council's honorary president..