An honorary secretary who gave active service to the Clovelly life- boat station for more than 40 years died on 26th November, 1963. This was Mr. J. C. Hilton, who joined the branch committee in 1922, was honorary secretary from 1932 to 1948, and president from 1948 to 1954.

He was re-appointed honorary sec- retary in 1954, a post in which he con- tinued until the time of his death. It was characteristic of his modesty and single-minded devotion to the service that he refused all the various awards which the Institution wished to confer on him..