SIR RICHARD V. N. HOPKINS, P.C., G.C.B., Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1942 to 1945, who died on the 30th of March, 1955, at the age of 75, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management and Chairman of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund since 1947.

Sir Richard Hopkins, who was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, entered the Civil Service in 1902 and became Chairman of the Inland Revenue Department in 1922.

He served in the Treasury from 1927 to 1945. After retiring from the Civil Service he look an extremely active part in public work for London Univer- sity and the Church Assembly of the Church of England, in addition to the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

He was also chairman of a number of committees appointed by the Govern- ment and held several directorships..