It is with deep regret that we have to record the death on February 14 of Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, KBE CB.

After a distinguished naval career embracing active service in two world wars and ending with the appointment as Flag Officer, Scotland, Admiral Cunninghame Graham devoted more than a quarter of a century to the lifeboat service. He was co-opted to the Committee of Management in 1953, being elected a vice-president of the Institution in 1968, and he was a member of both the Scottish Lifeboat Council and its Executive Committee from 1953 until his death. From 1953 to 1972 he served as vice-convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, and from 1963 to 1965 as chairman of the Executive of the Scottish Council.

Admiral Cunninghame Graham had strong personal links with the lifeboat service from his childhood because his father, Cdr C. E. F. Cunninghame Graham, was deputy chief inspector of lifeboats from 1894 to 1908. His bonds with the coast were close as he was chairman of Helensburgh station branch and he took an active and personal interest in the wellbeing of all Scottish lifeboat stations, branches and guilds.

For his funeral at Cardross on February 18 the Parish Church was packed and the congregation included many of his lifeboat friends..