Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force, and was A.O.C.-in-C., Coastal Command, and later A.O.C.- in-C., Transport Command.

As Master of the Honourable Com- pany of Master Mariners he had been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution ex-officio since 1945..