FOUR new members have been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. They are Captain R. E.

Cowell, C.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.; Mr. P.

Denham Christie; Field-Marshal Sir Francis Festing, G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O.; and Mr. Peter Guinness.

Mr. Denham Christie has been the coxswain of the Tynemouth life-boat since 1953 and is Vice-Chairman of the Tynemouth life-boat branch. He is a director of Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. and Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co. Ltd.

Captain Cowell is the Marine Super- intendent of P. & O. Lines. In 1953 he was A.D.C. to the Queen.

Sir Francis Festing was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade, and had reached the rank of lieut.-colonel on the out- break of the last war. After command- ing the Second Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment and a brigade in Madagascar, he commanded the 36th Division in Burma from 1942 to 1945.

He held a number of important com- mands after the war, including those of Commander, British Forces, Hong- kong, and G.O.C. British Troops in Egypt. He finally reached the summit of his profession with his appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

Mr. Guinness is joint managing director of Guinness Mahon, merchant bankers. He is an expert small boat sailor, and recently won the Royal Cruising Club Challenge Cup for a cruise to the Lofoten Islands.

Five members of the Committee of Management have been elected Vice- Presidents. They are Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Bromet, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.; Mr. C. G. Freke, C.I.E.; Lieut.- Commander the Hon. Greville Howard, R.N.R., M.P.; Admiral Sir William R.

Slayter, K.C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.; and Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.

Mr. Roger Leigh-Wood was appoin- ted Deputy Treasurer of the Institution on the death of Mr. T. O. Gray..