It is with much regret that we announce the death, which occurred last night, of Mrs Clara Linnitt, of 118 Washbrook-road, Rushden after an illness of some three months duration in its worst severity. Mrs Linnitt, widow of T W C Linnitt had devoted her life in Rushden to many public interests and had given herself up wholeheartedly to various deserving causes. She was nominated for Rushden on the Wellingborough Board of Guardians in 1900 and was returned. She remained a member of the Board continuously for the first 18 years of the century and retired with her husband in 1918 when his health began to fail. During her long term of office she had become extremely popular among her colleagues, by whom she was greatly missed on her retirement. Among her other interests, she was on the committee of the Rushden British Women's Temperance Association and was an ardent worker for the Mother's Meeting connected with that body. She was for many years a prominent member of the Park-road Baptist Church. Her husband, who died in 1919, was for many years a Guardian, and her father Mr Charles Bayes, was also prominently connected to that body. The late Mrs Linnitt was a native of Rushden and was 58 years of age. Her brother, Mr George Bayes, of Rushden, is sanitary Inspector for the Irthlingborough Urban Council and the Irchester Parish Council and her sister, Mrs T Tailby, has also been a member of the Wellingborough Board of Guardians. Mr C E Bayes, another brother, who was for long a member of the Rushden Urban Council, died in 1925.