The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Good, Reverend Henry
d. 1898
Reverend Henry Good was the Senior Priest-vicar of Royal Peculiar Collegiate Church
of Wimborne Minster,
Dorset, from 1841 to
1881.1
His son, Charles Good, served as British Columbia
governor James Douglas's private secretary, and was married to Douglas's
daughter Alice.2Governor Douglas mentions Reverend Good while recommending Charles to the
Duke of Newcastle, for the Office of Treasurer of the colony in 1863.
Unfortunately for Charles, Newcastle was not convinced, noting in the file
that the Governor forgets to add to Mr. Good's other qualifications that he is his Son in
Law.3
Reverend Good was educated at Cambridge and served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy
during the Peninsular War. He was ordained deacon in
1823 and priested in 1824. He died in 1898 at the age of
ninety-eight.4
3. Douglas to Newcastle, 2 September 1863, 10015, CO 60/16. B63052.html
4. John Venn, ed., Alumni Cantabrigienses [part 2, vol. 3] (Cambridge University Press, 1947), 79.
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United Kingdom, General Register Office Index, Deaths Registered in January, February, and March 1898, Axbridge, vol. 5c, 405.
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