GOODRICK The Rev. Alfred. Thomas. Scrope. Goodrick, MA, Rector of Winterbourne Gloucestershire age 58years (19th June 1914.)No, 279. Buried 23^rd June 1914 in Winterbourne Church South Gloucestershire. The Rev. Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick, whose death on June 19th is noted in our columns of today, was a native of Gt. Yarmouth and a man of considerable literary note and classical distinction.  Born in this town in the year 1856 he received his education at the old Yarmouth Grammar School under Dr J. J. Raven, whence he entered St. John's College, Cambridge.   After a time he changed to Magdelen [pronounced: maudlin], Oxford, winning high honours at both Universities.  He also spent two years at Gottingen with distinction, making the acquaintance and securing the friendship of various men of note. He eventually took his M.A. and Fellowship at St. John's, Oxford in 1879.  He obtained 1st. Class Mod. [Moderns], 1876, B.A. 2nd Class Literature and Humanities, 1879;  Ellerton Prix. 1880;  St. John's, 1882; was lecturer 1880 - 1883; tutor 1883 - 96; clerical Moderator 1889 - 90.  Leaving St. John's to enter upon the rectorship of Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, he retained that living till the day of his death.  He made his mark chiefly as a classical scholar and lecturer, but his general literary eminence was considerable, he being a frequent contributor to "Blackwood" and other journals of that class.  His article in the former on "Mere Children in Finance", a phrase used by Cecil Rhodes when he endowed by will the famous Rhodes' scholarships, and applying to University dignitaries generally, was quoted largely by the leading dailies as proving up to the hilt the justice of the description.  His connection with college government and keen business instincts entitled him to judge.  His English translation of Simplicissimus, a curious German work, "Now for the first time done into English," published by Heinemann, 1912, was noticed and commented upon by the leading journals as remarkable evidence of almost unique intimacy with the subtleties of German expression and idiom in an Englishman bred and born.

In brief he was a fine scholar and an exceedingly capable man.  In his best days he was gifted with an extraordinary memory, very little escaping him that he had once read or heard, and as a lad at school the writer of this well remembers him saying, "I feel when I get my books and papers round me like one sitting down with a heavy appetite to a good meal."  Work was a pleasure to him.  He was buried in the quiet grave yard of Winterbourne near the old church he loved so well with its ancient font and Crusaders in stone, about to rest with them.

The Lost Norfolk Goodrick Pedigrees Swaffham Gt Yarmouth, and Watton.