SIR ERIC SEAL, K.B.E., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Works, and Chairman of the Civil Service Life- boat Fund, has been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution.

After service in the R.A.F. during the war of 1914-18, Sir Eric Seal joined the Admiralty in 1925 and was Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill in the early years of the last war. both at the Admiralty and at 10, Downing Street. He joined the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington in 1941 and subsequently served in the Control Commission for Germany, the Foreign Office (German Section) and the Ministry of Works..