CAPTAIN THE HON. SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., died on the 16th of April, 1958, at the age of 73. He first joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1932 and after the second world war rejoined in 1946. He was a Vice-President of the Institution, a Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Life- Boat Council and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council.

After serving in the Royal Navy, in which during the first war he was awarded the D.S.O. and bar and was three times mentioned in dispatches, Captain Cochrane was returned as M.P.

for East Fife and later as M.P. for Dumbartonshire. In 1936 he was appointed Governor of Burma. He rejoined the Royal Navy during the second world war, in which he commanded an armed merchant cruiser..