COMMODORE THE RT. Hox. THE EARL HOWE, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R., has been elected Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution to succeed Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., who recently announced his desire not to seek re-election, after having held the post for nearly 33 years.

Lord Howe, who was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, served in command of the Howe Batta- lion, R.N.D., in Belgium and in H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth in the 1914-18 war. He was A.D.C. to King George V from 1925 to 1928 and Member of Parliament for South Battersea from 1918 to 1929.

He joined the Committee of Manage- ment of the Royal National Life-boat Institution in 1919 and served as Deputy Treasurer from 1931 to 1947.

He became chairman of the General Purposes and Publicity Committee in 1932 and was appointed a Vice-Presi- dent in 1936. In 1946 he was elected Deputy Chairman. During his period of service on the Committee he has visited nearly every life-boat station in Great Britain and Ireland.

The Countess Howe, who Avas chair- man of the Central London Women's Committee from 1948 to 1954, was appointed an honorary life governor of the Institution in 1955.

The new Deputy Chairman is Cap- tain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N. Captain Wyndham-Quin was in command of destroyers and saw service in the Grand Fleet and Har- wich Force in the 1914-18 war. He returned to active service from 1939 to 1943 in command of H.M. ships in Home Waters, in the South Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets. From 1944 to 1947 he was Naval Attache at H.M. Embassy in Buenos Aires.

He joined the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution in 1939 and became Chairman of the Operations Committee in 1954..