Mr. D. A. Acland, of East Grinstead, Sir John Brocklebank, of Mold, Flintshire, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., of Burley, Hampshire, have accepted co-option as members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Mr. Acland, who is aged 36, is a keen yachtsman and a director of W. H. Smith & Son Ltd.

Sir John Brocklebank, who was born in 1915, served with the R.A. in the last war in the United Kingdom and the Middle East. He has wide shipping interests and has associations with several well known companies.

Sir Wilfrid Woods, who is aged fo, served in submarines and on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, during the last war. He was Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and N.A.T.O. Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic, from 1960 to 1962 and Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel, from 1963 to 1965. He was First and Principal Naval A.D.C. to the Queen from 1962 until he retired in 1965.

In 1963 he became Commodore of the Royal Naval Sailing Association..