Miss E. M. Lloyd-Jones, whose home is in Auchterarder, Perthshire, has been appointed as the Institution's organising secretary for Scotland. She succeeds Mrs. Jan D. Paton, who has retired after thirteen years of distinguished service with the Institution during which she worked tirelessly to evoke the wonderful response of the people of Scotland to the claims of the life-boat service.

Miss Lloyd-Jones served as a personnel selection officer in the Women's Royal Army Corps from 1954 to 1958.

She had previously been assistant labour officer at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, and personnel manager of Turnbulls Limited, of Hawick..