Derek Goodrich Explained

Derek Hugh Goodrich (15 July 1927 – 6 September 2021) was an Anglican priest who was the Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana, from 1984[1] to 1993.[2]

Born in July 1927,[3] Goodrich was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1948, MA 1954). He was ordained deacon in 1953 and priest in 1953 after studying at St Stephen's House, Oxford.[4]

He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Andrew and St Francis Willesden Green[5] (1952-57) before then moving to what was then British Guiana. He was successively curate of St Philip's, Georgetown (1957), Vicar of Lodge (1957-67) and Vicar of Port Mourant (1967-71). He was then rector of New Amsterdam (1971-84).[6] From here he became Rural Dean of Berbice, then Archdeacon of Demerara before being elected to the deanery of the diocese[7] in 1984. A noted historian,[8] he resigned in 1993 and retired to Lingfield, Surrey.

Goodrich died in September 2021, at the age of 94.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Diocesan History. https://web.archive.org/web/20070709194741/http://www.stgeorges.org.gy/St%20Georges%20Cathedral%20Book.pdf . 2007-07-09 .
  2. Book: Crockford's Clerical Directory: 2008-2009. Crockford's Clerical Directory. 2007 . 100th . Church House Publishing. 978-0-7151-1030-0.
  3. Book: Personalities Caribbean. 5 . 1973. 293.
  4. Book: Crockford's Clerical Directory: 1973-1974. 1973. 85th . 362.
  5. Web site: Parish web site . 2008-08-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080511170424/http://www.willesdengreenparish.org.uk/ . 2008-05-11 . dead .
  6. News: Deaths. Church Times. 10 September 2021.
  7. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/guyana/georgetown.htm Interview in February, 2000
  8. http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news/nc91206.htm Land of the Six Peoples