Derek Goodrich

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Portal". 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).[4] 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)[4] 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).[4] 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.[4]

Goodrich died in September 2021, at the age of 94.[6]

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