Lady Jean Fforde was recently presented with an RNLI award, a bar to her gold badge, by Sir Andrew Cubie, deputy chairman of the RLNI in the Brodick Bar.
Lady Jean Fforde receives her RNLI 60 years service award from Sir Andrew Cubie.
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She received the award as the longest-serving president of the RNLI in the UK, having served for nearly 60 years. In fact her involvement unofficially started much earlier when, as a child of six, she manned the new lifeboat at Dunbar.